Quotes About Comparison

I'm very, very jealous of guys who just go and decide to party and then can work the next day.

The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.

In the time it takes American literary titan William H. Gass to write a novel, other artists have been born, completed their life's work and died. That may be an exaggeration, but only a slight one.

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

Jealously would kill you from inside, if you water the plant of jealousy with anger instead of hard work

If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.

When the grass is greener at other people's feet, it is not because the grass chose to take up that complexion. But it is because, they have deliberately irrigated it on regular accounts.

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

You have to be competitive to be relevant

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else's shadow, they might wilt.

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

We always see other's wealth & lifestyle. But should not neglect their hard work as well...

I'm a self-made actor in Bollywood. And when I see actors far more good-looking and talented than me struggling for a place, I feel quite happy with my place.

I wasn't used to all these cameras getting stuck in my face. I feel like Justin Bieber sometimes.