ego

“There’s a lot of ego involved in the conversation around running your own business,” Mansour said.

Obama talked about how his ego made him think “he could be a good president.”

"It was all ego – I wanted to climb the biggest mountain, go and find the tribe that no one's visited to show the world how tough I was."

Iris soon learns that caring for a dog like Apollo means living her life differently, one that deprioritizes her ego in service of the dog she elected to house.

Arguably, his best performances are in the indie films “Drugstore Cowboy” and “Factotum,” where he played Charles Bukowski’s alter ego — which is what makes him playing Brando both fun and exciting.