Seth Green Quotes

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

I never resented anybody for being successful.

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

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

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.

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

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

I'd be lying if I said that it didn't suck to see Durant doing so well.

'Toast' is based on a bunch of actors but especially one guy. I worked with him on a film and realise that if I mentioned any actor who was around his age but more successful, it would drive him insane. So from sheer devilment, I'd do it on purpose.

I didn't have any friends when I was at Radio 1. I didn't hang out with anyone and I didn't hang around after work. The other DJs hated me because first I was given the 'Breakfast Show,' and then I got on television.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

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

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

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

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

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

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.