Noma Dumezweni Quotes

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

As an actor, and as you get to a certain level... and it's pilot season and you read the trades, you could have a nervous breakdown. 'So-and-so's signed for a pilot. Why aren't I?'

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

If a friend got a big promotion, I would outwardly congratulate them, but inside I would painfully compare myself with them and think that their success was a reflection on my failings.

I don't like being jealous.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

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

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

I always think that I'm not going to be right for a movie or that there's someone else who can do it better.

It's so funny because all those years I was working, I basically always felt that whatever job I was doing would probably be the last one I would get. I really never thought that I stacked up with the other girls.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

You're in a scene with Laura Linney or Oliver Platt or John Hickey or Alan Alda and these amazing actors and actresses, and you're like, 'Oh my God, I haven't even started; I'm nothing compared to these people!'

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.