(17 quotes found)
“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
Leo Rosten
“If I were spiteful, I would remind you that it is only fitting that a twisted, narcissistic psychopath, obsessed with public attention, will soon have his world reduced to an isolated solitary existence in an 80-square-foot cell doomed to languish away the rest of your miserable life, alone,”
Jeff Davis
“He's happy with the form. He's sort of the 'big giant narcissist,' and he's also a big giant drunk.”
Jane Curtin
“What all the ads and all the whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, and your choice of Scotch in bars--you would meet a beautiful, powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.”
Erica Jong
“I watched that episode a thousand times [Once more, with feeling]....because I'm an incredible narcissist.”
Joss Whedon
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Gore Vidal
“For the average person, pressure gets in the way [of achievement]. But the narcissist is very happy in the moment of glory. It has to be glory, though. He's not going to be a team player.”
Roy Baumeister
“Delegates crane their gaze at overhead screens. The producers, using fast-cutting close-up shots, have added the narcissistic touch of allowing delegates to watch themselves watch themselves at a convention of people watching them.”
Francis X. Clines
“Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.”
Warren Beatty
“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the world'. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is 'God's gift to the collective.”
Christopher Lasch
