Quotes About Comparison

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'

I recognized a lot of Vogue in me and vice versa. We fit, we were very compatible together - even my mum thinks we're similar!

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

When I had to sing 'Kajra re' for 'Bunty Aur Babli,' I thought that my voice will not match that of Amitabh Bachchan's.

Cee Lo - to me, his voice is classic; I've personally said to him before, 'For me, your voice is as special as a Michael Jackson vocal,' because of what he can do, his range. I said that to him, and I mean that.

I'm an old spirit, and my voice tends to be kind of heavy and loud. I've been referenced as 'a young Aretha.'

People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.

I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.

Am I the next Bill Simmons? I don't think so. I haven't built a media property. He's the best at finding voices he likes and paying people money to work for him.

I'm under no illusion. There are lots of male singers out there with raspy voices.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing my face next to Jake Gyllenhaal's.

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

A DJ draws a connection between two seemingly disparate things and says, 'Look, they are alike. You can dance to them.'

We don't all have perfect lives, even if they are seemingly so.

That's the thing with acting. There are always loads of people who are more successful, richer, more famous and seemingly able to do anything they want.

When we were younger we were so confident. Then when we got flung into the industry we began to get self-conscious and started criticising ourselves because other people were doing it.

As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'

Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.