Lara Flynn Boyle Quotes

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

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 believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

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.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head.

Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It's not a joke. They care.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

Everybody wants to see a film made on them... But it's not like I will die of hunger if it's not made.

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.