Quotes About Comparison

I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.

I was very much aiming to go into movies eventually, like a lot of 'SNL' people. But, soon after I arrived, all these really good actors started, like Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg, and I thought, 'If I were casting a movie, I would put all of them in it over me.'

You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

I know that I'm a bit of a snob now, because 'The Lover' put me up here and I just don't want to accept anything less than that. I don't see why I should.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, 'Is that all you've got?' But people do it with food.

I think something about high school students being snobby about how much they have or don't have is particularly absurd because it's not theirs. It's their parents'. So to feel quite good about yourself because you've got the fancy house and car doesn't make any sense - you didn't earn any of that.

Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as ours. But it isn't all that short, either.

I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

So many people have gone through the experience of not feeling good enough.

So many people don't believe in themselves; people are worth so much more than what social media shows.

It's difficult when so many people are talking about this pressure of being a celebrity sibling, and you somewhere get lost and don't know how to deal with it.

I've been compared to so many people - Streisand, Celine - it doesn't bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?

So many people have done Coke Studio but my song broke all records. I think I was highlighted too much after CS.

For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

Culture becomes visible when we travel between " cultures " and when we look back in time to other " cultures " than our own.

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes. Mark Twain1