Bill Hader Quotes

In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

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

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

It's not people who resent successful people; it's resentful people who resent successful people.

People don't like success.

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

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

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

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.

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

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.

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.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

We've never been people that go around and confront people that have been financially successful and say, 'We hate you. We envy you because of how well you're doing.'

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

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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.

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

I think it's okay to feel jealous, but it's how you deal with it that's the important thing. You have to be happy for your friends when they do well because you want them to do well. It's not a competition.

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.