Diablo Cody Quotes

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

My motto is, 'You may not be as good as you think you are, but thinking you are is good.'

You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way to make a living. The idea that you're going to say, "Oh, I think I deserve to be paid attention to, and people should listen to what I have to say, and everybody should look at me," that's a little bit delusional in a way.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.