Akhil Sharma Quotes

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

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.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.

Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.

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

I felt like there were so many talented people who should be getting what I have.

People tend to think when you're at the top, you need bashing down. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.

I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.

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

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.