Quotes About Comparison

More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.

Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

When I first went to interview for 'Misery,' they were saying things like, 'You're not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.' And I just don't get the relevance of that remark. I'm not Elizabeth Taylor, either. I'm not Sean Connery.

We can't all have faces like Elizabeth Taylor or Angelina Jolie.

I couldn't be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

I'm like the male Taylor Swift.

Honestly, I don't really hear the comparisons to Taylor Swift anymore. I think it's because people are finally starting to see me for who I am and my craft and not being the next Taylor.

The second we were done on 'The Sing-Off,' we were like, 'All right, now we're competing with Rihanna and Taylor Swift.' We've always set the bar high. We want a hit.

Not that we've got anything against America, mind. But let's face it, you make a lousy cup of tea over here.

I think Americans have always been pretty outspoken. I always found that if you had emotions in England, it's like, 'Here's a cup of tea.'

What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.

I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.