Sharon Van Etten Quotes

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

There is a perspective out there that I'm very much all about myself... I just live with it.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.