Quotes About Comparison

I don't get recognized that much. That's the best part of it. I tend to get things like, 'You sound a lot like that guy on 'Deadwood.' And that's lovely. I've been very fortunate. No giggling, screaming girls. None of that.

I would watch San Antonio play and see plays I recognized from the Russian team, the Yugoslavian team.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I have to think that 'Nessa Dorma' is the greatest rock ballad that's never been recorded as such.

But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

If I'm judged against my peers, rather than anyone else we could both think of, then I reckon I deserve to make records.

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.

They made it very clear that I shouldn't try to be Data because there is only one Data, you can't ever recreate the magic that Brent Spiner made.

The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

I always fancied someone might call me 'Red,' like Katherine Hepburn.

I really like red hair. I think if you have brown hair, you want blond hair; if you have blond hair, you want blue hair. We always want what we don't have. It takes a while to admit, Hey, it's just part of me.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

I like to refer to myself as 'The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.'

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.

I play with a lot of guys who say they're a five handicap, and they shoot 110. And then you play with guys who say they are a 20 and they shoot 75.

I didn't realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.