Quotes About Comparison

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

I am a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon, and I always get told that I look like her little sister. So I would love to play her little sister one day.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do.

I remember being a kid and trying to do make-up and being so bad at it - but my sister Kylie was so good. It came so naturally to her. For me, it was never natural.

I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

I have two sisters and neither one of them are dancers.

I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.

My sisters take, like, hours to get ready, and I'm, like, really quick. I think I get that from my dad.

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'

I believe real brothers or sisters should not do a film together. People tend to compare. They don't think twice before saying anything.

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

You will never have the perfect body, and to sit there and compare yourself to another person or what someone else likes - we're the only people that have control of our body. We're the only people that live inside of our body 24/7.

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life.

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!