Quotes About Comparison

The thing with Crocs and the Chanel dress, one is quick, fast and regrettable, the other is enduring and iconic.

I hate being asked what it's like to play someone iconic.

Showing your ID while entering or doing a manual check-out when leaving - are these the things you do at home? No. If I have them in hotels, how will you feel at home during your stay then?

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she's actually just becoming me.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Being compared to the best driver in F1 history is the goal you want to achieve, and to have that as my idol and father is very special.

I would always compare myself with the best, and my dad is the best, and he's my idol, too.

It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

I'll never be on the level of my idols.

Growing up on a farm in the '70s and '80s was just idyllic, you know, but I look at the difference in the way that my kids have grown up and how I've really done so much and dedicated my life and my heart and soul to making their life as easy as possible, because we always want our children to have it better than we had it.

If I could have grown up to be Robin Thicke, I would have. But I'm glad somebody in the family did.

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way. Truth be told, I couldn't.

Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.

About seven years ago, I was anchoring a BBC news program and somebody else was brought in to do it. I had that moment of thinking, 'My God, Im a complete failure. Ill never work again.'

I think going in a boxing ring with Conor would be great, or in MMA... No ill will towards the guy but I actually believe I'm a better boxer.

I was the Richard Gere non-lookalike in Illinois.

An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not true.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.