I’m such a theater geek. Most of my friends are in this community, and it’s really important for me to keep doing it. It takes the ego out of acting, whereas movies tend to involve it.
Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention… and I don’t have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.
Doing a TV show where it’s a very relentless schedule, it does democratise you in a brilliant way. It does chip away at the old ego and you do realise that you’re only really ever as good as the words that you’re saying, the people you’re talking to, or more importantly, listening to.
I’m not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don’t have one.
MMA is pretty tough on your mind because it’s a sport that’s not just about winning. You really want to win bad, but it’s tough when you lose. You get beaten. And it really messes with your ego, because nobody wants to get beaten by other people physically. It’s not just a game. You get beaten physically.
Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.
There’s so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the ‘Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn’t like me…’
I’ve done ‘The Love Boat’ twice. I had a great time, but my ego rails against it.
Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it’s the reverse, and I honestly don’t think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
I don’t need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.
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.
You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.
I was drawn to music from a super early age. At school, my ego co-opted it to some degree and I would use it to gain some sort of social credibility.
On ‘Vikings,’ nobody’s got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.
Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
I’m very competitive, and my ego couldn’t handle that lack of success.
Surrealism – in particular with Salvador Dali – was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
The only real benefit of being famous is being recognized by head waiters and getting good tables at restaurants. The rest is part ego trip and part inconvenience.
My message to the world is to surrender your ego: try not to think that you are not as fortunate as some people or inferior or not as good as someone else.
But the star thing I can live with. The music I can’t live without. And that’s how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
That’s the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there’s no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego’s reaction. That’s what takes people out of the fight half the time.
To surrender your ego, you have to have one first.
I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It’s not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.
I am not saying I don’t think I’m good, but I’m not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.
‘Drag Race’ has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.
I think it’s pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.
Beethoven’s reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
It’s really nice to look around the other top skips in curling and know that I’m six, eight, 10 years younger than some of them. That is good on the ego.
Any comparison to a WWE legend or someone I’ve looked up to is really cool, but make no mistake about it, my ego is too big to want to be a really good replica of someone else!
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can’t do it!
I’m an actor; I have an ego that is sometimes disproportionate to the reality of the situation.
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.
When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it’s justified; sometimes it’s about ego.
With the hugely talented women I’ve worked with or observed, it’s not a question about temperament or ego; it’s a question about getting it right. If they’ve got a reputation for being difficult it’s usually because they just don’t suffer fools.
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
There is a thin difference between confidence and ego.
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.
One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.
Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.
I remember in Charlotte, they looked to me every day. I’m 30 now. And now it’s, ‘Let’s just win.’ Maybe when I was 26 there would have been ego. Now, I just appreciate the recognition for the defense.
If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.
Everyone knows the feeling where you’re in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It’s awesome, you feel like you rock. That’s what comedians want with a bit of extra ego.
Of course I have an ego, but you have to have an ego. You have to be incredibly competitive. I can get competitive at times, way too much, and it becomes a little bit obsessive.
On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what is right when no one is looking.
It’s a better boost to my ego that people are commenting positively on my appearance than negatively.
The only time I had an ego is I when wanted to have a reverse Undertaker record at WrestleMania, and they messed it up!
When I am out and about I feel watched. It’s become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.
People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
My talent is my talent. I ain’t really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.
Chefs have the ego of an actor and fashion designer combined.
Me and Dre go back so far – a long 30 years – even before N.W.A. The way we talk to each other now is the same way we talked when we first met. No big heads, no ego stuff.
I want to be respected as an actor. There’s my ego. But I don’t have a great need to be liked by an audience.
I don’t feel I have an alter ego.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Just being in the industry that I’m in, you get people building up your ego – ‘Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.’ So I started believing the hype – ‘Yes, I am a god!’
