Quotes About Comparison

You come up to 20 years old and you've only played three times. You see other boys who are playing regularly in the Premier League or in the Championship. And you're thinking 'I've only played three times, no starts, they've all been five minutes here and there.'

I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

I wasn't 'gifted' in the way that Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns or somebody like that is gifted, in that they got the physical attributes and so forth.

I feel that I am better than Roman Reigns, but you know what? He hasn't wrestled as long as I have.

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.

Like, I feel like I'm funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

What I noticed about living by the sea when I moved to London was that it's really bad when you only have lots of other people to compare yourself to. I grew up relating to the land as well as other people.

My liking for a team isn't based on just how good it was, but how good was it in relation to how good it should have been.

I am more respectful of the parasocial relationship of myself and my fans than anything Damien Hirst does between himself and his collectors.

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Success, you know, is a relative thing.

The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two main political parties.

I can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.