Self-Involved Quotes

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Actors are inherently self-centered. We're trained to focus on who I am. What do I want? Who is in my way? How do I get this? That's how we're trained. Unfortunately, that sometimes spills over into real life. But it's all very subjective. You just try to portray someone beyond the surface, the different layers.

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.

I tend to be melodramatic and super self-involved.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

I am a total me, me, Me person.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.

What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.