Nancy Jo Sales Quotes

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

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

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

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!

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

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.

Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

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

I've never really been into social media - I don't have a Facebook; I don't do Twitter or Instagram or anything.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

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.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.