Top 60 Egos Quotes

Ultimately, I think to be successful in fashion, you have to turn into the most incredible HR person. It’s about politics. I’m massaging egos and keeping everyone happy.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It’s just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

In my lifetime, I’ve discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I’ve seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.

Team spirit is paramount – each of our own egos has to take a back seat. That applies to me as well as everyone else.

The best tech companies are led by founders with entrepreneurial zeal and strong egos. They consistently deliver what we want and what we need, at prices that decrease over time. The Wall Street firm is a long-standing institution with a more established hierarchy.

It can be a real blow to our egos when we feel as if our hard-earned degrees don’t matter as much as our ability to get the morning coffee orders right.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don’t really care about their egos and their publicists.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

This is going to sound like a lie, but the ‘Game of Thrones’ set is so good to work on. I’ve been a part of plays and other projects where egos get in the way and there are constant fallings out. There’s none of that there.

Egos turn me off, big time.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

I don’t want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don’t want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.

I’ve trained with trainers in L.A., and they get complacent. They’re used to dealing with celebrity egos, so they cotton-wool you a bit.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let’s get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

I love to do voiceover because, for me, if you know what you’re doing, it’s simple. No makeup, no costuming, none of the baloney. None of the egos – you don’t have to deal with all that crap. I love voiceovers.

When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don’t talk. You have no friends.

Award shows in general are just lame excuses to stroke the egos of millionaires, but the ‘ESPY’s’ are an especially embarrassing example.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

As a director the first level of management is people. You have to deal with about 100 creative egos and make sure they subscribe to your vision and give you their best.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.

I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They’re too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

Many times I felt like I’d do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn’t have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there’d be battles of egos.

You imagine that, going into such a huge American series, you will come up against a lot of egos, but it was the complete opposite on ’24,’ a dream team.

Making a record’s really hard. You deal with the money stuff – you never have the budget you need. You’re working with so many egos.

Not head coach – Assistant would be very attractive, but I don’t think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.

If you’re a coach, you’ve got to have a lot of confidence in what you’re doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you’re a coach.

When you got a group like G-Unit… we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it’s a business of egos and dominance.

I’ve worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.

A lot has to be the NBA. I don’t know if I can say it is the egos of the players or the money that goes around and everything. But those relationships between the coaches and the players are just not the same. They are not even close to the European coach-player relationships.

In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

In modeling, because you’re the center of attention, it builds up people’s egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

I’m in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

I can’t stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I’d rather do that.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

Some people confuse confidence with arrogance. There’s no doubt in the business world there are a few big egos and I think arrogance can get in the way. But if you have the confidence to go to your higher superior and say this is wrong, it can make a difference.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven’t done or some place that I’ve never been or don’t even know. It’s just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Popstars really draws you in. It’s fascinating. It’s interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren’t involved and they weren’t trying to be world famous. It’s the Real World, only better.

Girls are socialised in ways that are harmful to their sense of self – to reduce themselves, to cater to the egos of men, to think of their bodies as repositories of shame. As adult women, many struggle to overcome, to unlearn, much of that social conditioning.

Startups can be the most conservative organizations in the world. We spend so much energy nurturing our delicate egos against naysayers and self-doubt that we can hardly admit mistakes. This is especially true of first-time CEOs.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

I have three alter egos.

A lot of times, you feel like you’re walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone’s having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

See, I don’t know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

Real Madrid is bigger than egos. The club is huge and the culture of the club was so big that we were able to sign huge players. It was then up to the players to adapt to the culture and not the other way around.

When you’re paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.