Taika Waititi Quotes

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

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

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

When you're good at something, there's always someone to spit on you.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people - I categorize them as life's losers - who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability, they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don't like it, but that's the way it is.

I never resented anybody for being successful.

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.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

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 thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Our success is now so apparent to others that one of our biggest challenges now is to manage the resentment it sometimes generates.

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.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

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