Florence King Quotes

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

People will become your enemies if you become eminent too quickly in life, and you will be ineffectual. Rising slowly in the world, people will be your supporters and your happiness will be assured.

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

When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.

People like to gossip about people who are successful.

When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.

If I hadn't been part of '3 Idiots,' I would have felt bloody jealous.

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

We hate it when our friends become successful.