A Quote by Gillian Jacobs

Actors are all narcissists. — © Gillian Jacobs
Actors are all narcissists.

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Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.
I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.
I do not know Rep. Weiner. But I do know he seems to have the features of a narcissist. Narcissists feel empty. Narcissists feel invincible. But their emotional landscape is barren.
Muhammad was a narcissist and Muslims, by having entered into his bubble universe have become narcissists by extension. More precisely, they are reverse narcissists. A commonly used term for reverse narcissist is co-dependent.
Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.
A lot of artists are such narcissists.
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.
narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet.
It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists.
As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to come prepared to the set, but sometimes, if they're beginning actors or people who are non-actors, you have to teach them how to act.
I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.
The world is so rife with narcissists that none of them take enough notice of me.
Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.
I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything about it knows that good actors do both - they do inside-outward and they do outside-inward. You can't not do both.
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