Quotes About Comparison

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

My brother told me when I came in the NFL, if they cut Peyton Manning, they're going to cut you someday too. That's always a realization for anybody in our livelihood.

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

Recognize that you always have room to grow and that there is always going to be someone better than you and that you can learn a lot from those people.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

Kyle, you are a mellow dude...You can't be with an agitator. And that's what she is. An agitator. She's a Jackson Pollock and you're a Thomas Kinkade.

I love you like a big fish

I'm just not sure that I'm good enough for her. She's a top shelf drink, I'm a house poured shot.

Besides, I'm looking for a man who doesn't have quite the mileage and the wear and tear on him as you do!

The love of one cat simply can't be compared with the love of another..

A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.

...Ah, but the Moon my Love is jealous, and can you blame him? You outshine him with your virtues...

I wonder if he'd been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

Can you imagine what it would be like to look into somebody's eyes and know that their destiny is so much greater than yours, that you will never compete? You will always be left behind.

The best boyfriends are the ones in books.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.

Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.