The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes

In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.

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.

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They're worried about where you're going.

There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

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

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.

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.

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

I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

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.

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

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

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.

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

Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.