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Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don't say that with any type of vanity.

There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.