Ego Resilience Quotes

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.

I think people believe I'm some kind of evil dictator sometimes. But I don't much care about that.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don't get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

I've been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.