Ego Quotes

"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."

"I've been pretty fortunate; everybody I've worked with has been pretty ego-free and they're just there to do the work and they're famous because they do good work. And the people I've run into have generally been pretty giving, caring people. It's easy to connect with that."

"Such is the nature of the human ego; it resents its betters and gloats at its lessers."

"A lot of other places I've worked at are incredibly ego-driven."

"I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well."

"We did not build this 10-course complex for the sake of ego, ... It's purely for the economic infrastructure support to the overall development of the region, which is Shenzhen and Guangdong."

"I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time."

"If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat."

"The kind of guy Steve Jobs is will not tolerate an ego like his anywhere around him ... so the people who have succeeded at Apple have essentially been emasculated. What makes this all so Shakespearean is that [the] very strengths and talents that made Apple what it is prevent this problem from becoming solved."

"There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize."

"Like [receivers coach Fred Graves] says, 'Leave your ego back at USC, Texas, at Michigan State. Be Detroit Lions.'"

"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 just going into the whole situation with no ego. I'm going to be prepared to learn from Coach Brown, soak up as much as I can. My whole thing is whatever he needs from me to make us a better team, I'm going to do."

"I'm 29. I lost my ego somewhere around my fifth season."

"I'm really glad I put aside whatever ego I had and just let (Wentz) be free,"

"Another person's ego is the most exquisite of delicacies, king's caviar - those who taste it can never resist it."

"Casey had a big ego. He knew that he could manage when he came to New York, and he had this tremendous desire to succeed. His humor camouflaged this tremendous desire for success, glory and respect that he so desperately needed."

"One thing I found hard to get scripted was the size of her ego. Her ego was so huge. She was about being the queen, and everybody had better treat her as the queen. I am not like that."

"Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that."

"Man's ego itself is Maya. It is the veil that shuts the light."