Julia Quinn Quotes

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."

Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

Who spit in your porridge?

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

My schtick is trolling people. I love getting a rouse out of people and making them angry.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.

Who made you the center of the universe?

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.