Quotes About Comparison

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.

Brad Pitt is older than Archie Bunker was in the first two seasons of All In The Family.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

When I reprimanded my son for hair like Michael Jackson he said: "I don't see the problem you wear yours like Michael Jordan."

I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

While doing an enquiry on renowned horror author, "Edgar Allen Poe" I was astonished to notice how more successful his biographical books sold compared to his own books.

DON'T BE JEALOUS OF OTHERS - EVER. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY HAD TO DO TO GET TO WHERE THEY ARE.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

You really should play with someone your own size, you know.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?' he said, son, you plum wore me out.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.