My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
I would love for the time to come where somebody can talk about me and not have to talk about Britney and Christina in the same sentence.
Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
The modern media culture favors those who yell the loudest.
I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
I think growth covers up mistakes.
I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.
We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.
People, especially press, want to pigeonhole you.
My starring in films with Clint didn't make me toast of the town. I became his appendage. Everything I did was in his shadow.
You want to do what you love, but stuff overshadows it, so it makes it a little harder for people to take me seriously.
I don't like stepping on other people's toes, but with my size 15 shoes, people step on mine sometimes.
If I'm going to get overshadowed in a film, it's because of something that I haven't done, not because of what the other heroine has done or because I've focused on the amount of scenes she had in the film.
I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
