Jonathan Rhys Meyers Quotes

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

Men have been intimidated by my relationship with Howard. You know, it's hard for them to imagine that they could be number one, seeing this relationship.

The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.

Envy is the central fact of American life.

Younger guys are just too jealous.

If another actor gets a good role, I'm furious.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

If a person's self-worth derives from being the only woman in the field, how much affection can she feel toward another woman who might challenge that claim to fame?

I hate it when people say, "Oh, women are just jealous." I'm not jealous, but I do beat myself up about what I haven't accomplished in my own life yet - and when you meet a woman who has accomplished what you expect to achieve, and she's also dating your ex, of course it's hard!

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

I never said I didn't like kissing you. The problem is too many guys have like kissing you." - Erik Night to Zoey Redbird (Ch 26)

If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.