Steven Soderbergh Quotes

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

Everybody needs to lower his ego.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

My ego has been in check for a long time.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

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.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I like 'me'/'I' songs.