Anthony Hopkins Quotes

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

If you have an ego of any sort, this course [Augusta] will take it and shove it down your throat.

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.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.

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.

Clearly I've got an ego.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

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.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

I can't really act entitled.

People should just get over themselves.