Pete Holmes Quotes

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

Money came in left, right and centre; you just thought that's how it was for everyone and that's how it will always be.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.