A Quote by William Hurt

Celebrity is a pathological sickness of the culture. Narcissists on screen being consumed by narcissists off-screen.

William Hurt

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Being Celebrity Consumed Culture Off Pathological Screen Sickness

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William Hurt
American - Actor
Born: March 20, 1950

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.

Drew Pinsky

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.

Ali Sina

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Philip Roth

A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

Tilda Swinton

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

Annie Ilonzeh

What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

Jovan Adepo

An actor's off-screen persona should never overshadow his on-screen characters.

Ayushmann Khurrana

You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

Beau Willimon

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

Beau Willimon

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Rupert Sanders

Romance on the screen happens even with people who do not have off-screen chemistry. To bring that out from them is my job.

Priyadarshan

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.

Jeffrey Kluger

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

Sam Vaknin

Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.