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You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

Success: When you make more money than the rest of us, it hurts our feelings.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

When you grow up around the 1 percent, it shows you a lot as a child. I got lost in my friend's house my first time ever going to it, because it was so big. I'd never seen anything like that before in my life.

When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.