Noel Edmonds Quotes

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

When you win many titles, the rivals are full of antipathy towards you.

One thing I learned from my old man is that people are going to be happy for you, but not too happy. When the tables are turned and you're hanging out on top with a guy like Randy Orton, who is in the main event at Wrestlemania, not all the guys are going to like you.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please don't be surprised when they announce that I won.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.

I never resented anybody for being successful.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

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

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.