Moss Hart Quotes

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

I'm vain.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Vanity is but the surface.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

I have a lot of vanity.