An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.
In a world without any criticism at all, although there are many actors who would think they would be delighted to see that happen, would in fact be a far more problematic world than they could ever imagine.
Sometimes when you are winning, you don't see your flaws; you don't see what you are not good at.
When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
