Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck

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

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

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden

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.
Sigmund Freud

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!
Ryan Seacrest

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
Lorna Luft

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.
Marc Morial

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Robert H. Schuller

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
John Cheever

I didn't think there was life after modelling, believe me. It's a hit to the ego when you are not the diva on the set any more. But I think what keeps me going are challenges. I love when people tell me I can't do something.
Carol Alt

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.
Joss Whedon

I fed my ego, but not my soul.
Yakov Smirnoff

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
Michael Hutchence

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.
Rutger Hauer

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

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
Hugh Downs

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

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim Carrey

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.
Lauren Ambrose