Arabella Weir Quotes

I think what's cool about a body-switching movie is, 'The grass is always greener:' the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Life is not always what we think it is.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

The grain is always greener in foreign fields, and the flocks of our neighbor have richer yields

As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove an LTD, not a Cadillac. Even now, I'm like that. If I'm on the 5th floor, I will wonder why I'm not on the 6th floor. But that was my drive. I was obsessed with my family having a better life.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

When it comes to personal appearance, people are quick to cast judgment on people who look better than them. It's part of the human inferiority complex.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.