Tim Minchin Quotes

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

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.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

I've always been a narcissist.

Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.

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

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

Personally, I think getting obsessed with yourself is the most dangerous thing.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.