Quotes About Comparison

People often talk about George Best and Alex Higgins as two similar personalities... but the truth is that Best did not like Alex.

Actually, Jang Ki Yong and I have completely opposite personalities.

It would be impossible to make a comparison between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. Their personalities are entirely different.

I never thought I'd say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

It's amazing when you see something on T.V. for years and then you go and see it in person. It's perspective is all different.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

I've never written a 'Revolver' or a 'Pet Sounds.'

I hate those articles - this is a pet peeve of mine - like move over X, here's the new Y. And it's just like, X didn't become obsolete because there's a person doing a similar thing. You also don't have to be like the new old-thing, you're just the current you-thing.

Peter has the biggest mouth, so it goes to be a mouth contest.

I remember my first review in London said I was the next Peter Brook. I said: 'No way. I'm not Peter Brook. I don't have the maturity, the experience, the intelligence. Don't burden me.'

I would work with someone humble like that guy Peter Andre than Madonna.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.

I'm the only member of my family who didn't get a PhD. So, I'm like the failure of the family, cause all I have is a bachelor's, like a drop out.

I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does.

I'm getting TV coverage just about everywhere as they compare the 'Bob Sapp phenomenon' to the biggest thing from Pokemon to Godzilla.

Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.