Top 12 Megalomaniacs Quotes & Sayings

Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

There is so much noise on the Internet, with would-be prophets daily haranguing their audience and megalomaniacs trying to push bizarre ideas, that eventually people will cherish a new commodity: wisdom.

Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they're cool and funny. If they do, they're megalomaniacs.

Granuaile:"So why don't cult leaders achieve godhood?" Atticus:" Because they're megalomaniacs drenched in douche juice.

It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but a growing number are doing just that.

Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?