Janis Ian Quotes

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

When I was younger, I wasn't making it, and I was mad at everybody who was.

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

Merle Haggard once said, 'I'm really mad at Glen Campbell because he's the most talented human being in the world.' That kind of summed it up. Merle didn't miss!

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

Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

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.

Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Jealousy's eyes are green.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

I love football and I love winning, and when things aren't going right I get annoyed.

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.

When we get to A League Of Their Own, I have to be Geena Davis' little sister who wants to be like her and wants everything that she has and is jealous and upset and mad. Well, that was easy. I mean, she has an Academy Award. I think I can be upset about that. She's 99 feet tall and she's drop-dead gorgeous and she's all feminine and pretty. I had to pretend I couldn't run as fast as her. That was hard.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

I envy drummers. It must be the ultimate to sing and play drums at the same time. Phil Collins, no wonder he's so f... happy.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Jealous punks can't stop my dunks.