Sometimes you have two egos—one on each side—and as you go up the escalation ladder, one of them may do something just to appear strong.
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
I have a Google alert for myself - it's pure vanity.
When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.
I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.
Misery nourishes your ego - that's why you see so many miserable people in the world. The basic, central point is the ego.
It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.
Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'
I've trained with trainers in L.A., and they get complacent. They're used to dealing with celebrity egos, so they cotton-wool you a bit.
Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.
Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.
When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
I always showed off when I was a kid.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
