Ego Inflation Quotes

Syria is a difficult country to govern. Fifty percent of the Syrians consider themselves national leaders, 25 percent think they are prophets, and ten percent imagine that they are God.

I've gotten to a place where I'm better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you're feeling super small and scared about whatever you're seeing, and you want to go read, 'Oh, I hear there's a really good article about me.' I've gotten better about knowing that's not going to end well, usually.

I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she's investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.

Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

Alas, I think I am becoming a god.

I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!

It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

There was a very obnoxious phase for Axl Rose. I'm sure if I had experienced as much success as he had, I would probably be a third as obnoxious. I'd probably be obnoxious, too. But not that much.

You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.