Robert Altman Quotes

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

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.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

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

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

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!

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

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

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves. This is true of nearly everyone to some respect - but for some people, it is a particularly acute problem.