Peter Capaldi

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

Scottish Actor

Patrick Dempsey

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

American Actor

Michelle Beadle

I thought I was going to go into politics, but that became disheartening. You see that a lot of stuff doesn't get done, people walk around all self-important, and it's just depressing.

American Journalist

K. D. Lang

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Canadian Musician

Katy Perry

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens... I look up into the stars and I imagine: 'How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?

American Musician

Ronny Chieng

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

Malaysian Comedian

Judith Leiber

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

Hungarian Designer

John Oates

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

Fernando Torres

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Spanish Athlete

John Cusack

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

The term is often used to express disapproval or mock someone's exaggerated self-worth.

Negative Implication

Being called self-important suggests that the person is not considerate of others' opinions or feelings.

Social Interactions

It's rarely, if ever, appropriate to describe someone as self-important in a positive light.

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 feeling very self-important came out and saw the gimmick they had ordered which was I ordered fifty chef hats for every one of their employees and I put that in quotes and they branded on the front cousins cousins cousins and read the fancy guy got out there and he said you know they got to get rid of those hats

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 you don't get emotionally involved in the in the recreation of course you do I mean that but been gratuitous about it versus having ones humanity very different thinking that it belongs to you taking some kind of self-important

Alexandra Fuller: Born...

 a hyperbolically self-important princess who deep down was scrappy and daring. Now, in her 41 years on TV, perhaps Erica's most famous scene is her alone in the woods suddenly face to face with a grizzly bear.

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 His targets were arrogant politicians, war-mongering generals, and self-important intellectuals, exactly the people who sat in the front row of the theatre, where everyone could see their reactions.

Self-important

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