James Taylor Quotes

I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

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

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

To become a celebrity, a name - and I've actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person - it's scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.