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I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

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

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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.

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

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

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

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

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.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two.

I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.

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

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.

The ego is not master in its own house.