Dylan Penn Quotes

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. People taking pictures of what they eat and showing them on their Facebook. People assume that people have a level of interest in what they're doing that's maybe far greater than it is, although there is an audience for all that stuff.

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying.

We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Actors are all narcissists.

No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.

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

Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

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

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

My wife thinks I'm a narcissist, but I just think it's hilarious going on YouTube and seeing these covers. There are so many of them - literally hundreds! It's flattering.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

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

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.