Jim Lampley Quotes

Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

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.

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.