Greg Oden Quotes

I tried hard to create my own records when a lot of them belonged to Steve Davis, so to see someone else beat yours, you'd be lying if you said there wasn't a twinge of regret there.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

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

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.

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

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

Chinese people become jealous about status more easily. Foreigners are more inclined to look up to successful people. I don't understand why there is a difference. If two people start at the same point and then one person gets ahead, the other should work hard to catch up. But instead, they just curse. They are jealous.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

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

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I don't mind not being President; I just mind that someone else is.

I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.

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

For me, I would get so frustrated because I would see these other bands just whip by us.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

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

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.