Self-Absorbed Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Self-Absorbed Quotes from famous persons: Chris Evert, Chris Barber, Leslie Jones, Robert Greene, Carolyn Murphy. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Self-Absorbed Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Chris Evert

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed – and so is their music.

Chris Barber

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, ‘The Jeffersons.’ We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don’t have to sit together anymore. It’s so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don’t realize that that is killing us.

Leslie Jones

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Robert Greene

Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.

Carolyn Murphy

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She’s interested in herself; why wouldn’t we be?

Robert Gottlieb

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Kanye West

I’m not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I’m never home. I’m constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I’m, like, self-obsessed. I’m irritable, self-absorbed.

Jake Shears

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

Angela Duckworth

I feel like I’m part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we’re actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

Diablo Cody

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

Nicholas Kristof

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Pope Francis

I worry sometimes that I’m a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that’s dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.

David Nicholls

Before my accident I was a little too… selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I’m blessed. I’m really blessed.

Rick Allen

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you’re a tennis player, you’re certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Chris Evert

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I’m totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Chuck Klosterman

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

James Taylor

When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.

Carolyn Murphy

In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we have become consumed by the barrage of information inundating us; we are even more fickle when it comes to leaders.

Robert Greene

I crave the variety, I really do. I’d probably say standup as I think that’s what I do best, if I may say so. But it can be a really self-absorbed, obsessive way to live your life, whereas doing theatre is very collaborative and creative and intense, I’d hate to miss out on that.

Ardal O’Hanlon

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

Paolo Nutini

I’ve always wanted to be a dad. I just can’t wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I’ve become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.

Josh Duhamel

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

Adam Hamilton

My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he’d ever dealt with.

Steve Hilton

A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don’t think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often.

Jinkx Monsoon

There’s so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn’t take money. It doesn’t take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Debi Mazar

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

P. J. O’Rourke

I don’t have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

Rush Limbaugh

I love all those dark, twisty shows, but my favorite show at the moment is ‘Girls.’ I love watching it. I’ve forgot how self-absorbed you can be at 21 years old or whatever.

Mark Strong

Parents today are self-absorbed. They don’t care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries, fairness, honesty and spirituality.

GloZell

Usually, I’m so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

Pamela Druckerman

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

MaryJanice Davidson

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they’d applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

Louise Penny

I feel people think I’m almost like a robot – like an android… I just don’t really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic… like a self-absorbed ice queen.

Megan Fox

Actors very often are people who think it’s always about ‘me,’ and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, ‘Gosh, I’m sorry about that,’ or, ‘Here, let me give you a job.’ It doesn’t happen that way. You can see why performers get very self-absorbed.

Rita Moreno

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

Farah Khan

The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it’s easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It’s a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.

Ryan Holiday

I’m always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that’s what youth is for.

Robin Marantz Henig

I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That’s been the focus while I’m in my thirties – to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.

Diane Kruger

People think pageant girls are snotty, cutthroat, self-absorbed. Everybody that I meet in the industry is so kind, giving, and they are some of the most amazing women.

Nicole Johnson

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