Art Quote by Randall Mann

You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.

— Tim Minchin

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

— Nadya Suleman

“Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.”

— Eraldo Banovac

Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like…

— Marion Bartoli

I think people have always misinterpreted my self-destructive nature as nihilistic, because if you don't care about the world, you can't create art. I…

— Marilyn Manson

People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.

— Sydney Pollack

“All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick…

— J.D. Salinger

We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can…

— Moby

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

— Richard Hofstadter