Anthony Bourdain Quotes

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

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

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

I don't want to be seen as the kind of person who does things and then expects publicity in return.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

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

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

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.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

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!

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

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.

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.