All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

I don't like it when bands don't want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that's cheating everybody, and I think it's selfish of an artist to do that.

Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

Men tend to be selfish.

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

It's true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.

To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.