Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

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

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

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

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

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

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

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

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!

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.

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

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

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

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.