I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
Lou Reed

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.
Al Alvarez

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.
Rob Schneider

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.
Valerie Harper

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.
Richard Gough

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
Kevin Spacey

I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
Whitney Houston

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
Taylor Hackford

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

I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
Gavin DeGraw

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
Peter Fonda

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
Kathleen Turner

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Dee Hock

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

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

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
Eberhard Weber

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
Lee Konitz

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.
Brandon Routh

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
Bell Hooks

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