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Ego Quotes

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Funny Time Ego Upside Down You Down

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Kindness Yourself Spiritual Joy Ego

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Alanis Morissette

Age Culture Me Ego Thinking Weird

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Christine Lagarde

Life Love Business Myself Death Ego

There are more women editors than people realise. I think we're more able to keep our eye on what the film needs. Between men, sometimes it's a real ego battle, and that's very bad for the film.

Thelma Schoonmaker

Women Men People Eye Ego Think

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Clare Boothe Luce

Creative Ego Lying Social Contacts

Misconception Number 1, the public always thought, 'Reggie has a massive ego; he's narcissistic, he's cocky, he needs everyone to look at him all the time,' because that's what the media told them. Wrong. I could handle the attention. I didn't let the attention affect my performance. But I never needed the attention.

Time Performance Ego Thought Media

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

Nature People Ego Believe View You

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

Love Ego Attention Center Needs

In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.

Lie Racism Ego Perfect Him Sexism

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.

Business Soul Ego Devil You Will

I do have an ego, but I acknowledge the help I get.

Ego Help Get Acknowledge

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Nature People Ego Believe Name Feel

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

Life Parents Ego Inevitable Sin

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

God Ego Voice Doing You Know

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

Ego You Behave Get Who Older

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

People Ego Thinking End You Wonder

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Win Ego Doing Early Down Play

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

Ego Want Kind Actor Accepted Says

Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

Adam Schlesinger

Best Focus Job Ego Think You

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

Challenge Ego Goal Kind Actor Lead

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

Ego Self True True Self Spotlight

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Past Moving Ego Self Learn You

I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

Ego Get Very Accessible Thing

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