Alain Prost Quotes

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

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 never resented anybody for being successful.

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

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

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

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.

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

Our success is now so apparent to others that one of our biggest challenges now is to manage the resentment it sometimes generates.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

I was so pretty, actresses didn't want to work with me.

If I was confronted with some 20-year-old American hotshot, I'd hate him.

When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.