Jonathan Tropper Quotes

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

I think, therefore I am confused.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I'm nobody, who are you?

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points - that means your ego is really kicking in. You can understand how people get to be assholes in music business because it's like you're getting pumped full of your own thing so much, you get ungrounded. That's a dangerous place to be.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

I feel like I'm the best actor on the planet and I also feel like I'm a fraud. I think hubris comes from insecurity. Confidence comes in a more rooted sense; part of being confident is being able to say, "I can be really shitty," and to accept that. But also not to crumble under it.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.