Quotes About Comparison

Your happiness makes me jealous and unhappy. I am a bitter and twisted human being.

Except that Blair wasn't nearly as fat as Judy Garland. She was a size two!

Men! Dead or alive, they could be exactly the same.

Sookie: Hey, our hair's the same color. Eric: Sure is, Girlfriend.

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the boy.

This Peter looked a lot like Eli, but with all the character sanded off.

When I feel jealous, I try to understand where it is coming from and how to better myself where I feel I am lacking.

China lacks good science fiction, but not mediocre science fiction. Even so, the gap between Chinese and American sci-fi is still very large and it is most apparent in quality of the works.

People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

I can tell you, to me, Lady Gaga is Madonna with diarrhea.

As for Lady GaGa, she's just a copy of Madonna.

Aussies are really laid back, and so are Californians.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

Getting on stage, for me, was a huge thing when I first started. And back in high school, everyone was in rock bands and I was a singer/songwriter. It just seems kind of lame.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Of course I'm happy when people mention his name and mine in the same breath. It's like a dream. But I know they are overpraising 'Your Name' because I am absolutely not at Miyazaki's level. Honestly, I really don't want Miyazaki to see it because he will see all its flaws.

I don't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with Charles Chaplin.

I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.

I think he's accomplished so much, I don't think it's fair to put me in the same category as Coach Payton. I think, hopefully, if you achieve even close to what he has in this league, then maybe you start to get mentioned.