“It's the band that really counts and not our egos. Egos probably destroyed more bands than anything else did, and that's something we want to avoid at all costs. We want to give the audience something real, something spectacular, and if it would be about egos, it would hardly be worth their time.” IfsWantGivingRealWould BeAudienceCostBandEgoDestroyedSpectacularSomething Real Author:Chester Bennington
“I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.” MatterPlayCharacterAbleActionTurnsAudienceEgoLosing Author:Neil Simon
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.” PeopleGivingMayBookShowsStarsSexDifferencesActingAudienceEgoPhotographyMassMarkResponseCriticsProofInevitableUselessGenreCinemaPlotOriginalityFamiliarityEscapingReviewersPsych Author:Mark Lawson
“When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.” WayWritingRealHardLosesBrainKnownAudienceKnowingEgoFindingsComputerSafetyFingersRewardsReal LifeIntimacyHard TimesSatisfying Author:Jill Soloway
“I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead.” PeopleIfsHardShowsThreeLosesAudienceMinutesEgoEthicsMaking MoneyWork EthicShow BusinessGreat WorkGreat Work Ethic Author:Norm MacDonald
“Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.” WritingEnoughAudienceEgo Author:Epicurus
“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.” ThinkingSelfHardEyeRunningEasySimpleKindnessAudienceVirtueRecordsJudgingEasierThousandEgoAchievementStandardsCharityOneselfNobleFakeCharmSelf RespectSubstitutesCompetenceDonatePersonal Achievement Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.” IfsAudienceComedyDoorsEgoShotsChecksCommitCliffsGreat TimesProverbialJumping Off A Cliff Author:Dwayne Johnson