Peter Coyote Quotes

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Welcome to the church of me.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

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

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.