Ego Quotes

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

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.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

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

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

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

Where id was, there ego shall be.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I never thought about being on a series before. It seemed like such a big commitment. But I love going to work every day. This is not about ego, it's about work, and that's refreshing in this town.

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.