I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin.
When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.
I don't think I'm a bad egg.
You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
Such an ego simply forbade certain lines of thought.
You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.
I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.
You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's not the motion of the ocean, it's the boat of the lotion.' I've even heard variants..., it's not the tree or the size, it's the axe that you wax.' It's a whole sub-genre of poetry now that's taught in many of our finer institutions.
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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.
For Trump, success always has a single father - himself. Failure has a hundred - everyone and anyone else. The media. The Democrats. The 'deep state.' Disloyal staffers. Prosecutors. Judges. Anyone who doesn't do his bidding or sufficiently sing his praises.
There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
Most men hate the necessity of revising their convictions.
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.
Don't take yourself so personally.
