Professional Envy Quotes

I'd love to work with Pharrell, but it's annoying because everyone is working with him now, and you don't want to be like, 'Oh, I want to work with you, too.' But he is the dream.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

I've taught people in improv classes, then watched them move to Los Angeles to become Emmy winners and movie stars. That experience, for anyone wondering, is both super exciting and also makes you put a microscope on your own life choices. It causes you to question why you still perform stand-up in so many Brooklyn basements.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

When you are making a lot of money people forget you are trying to be creative and they picture you laughing all the way to the bank ... especially with an action script, automatically it gets boo-hooed as being worthless. It was very difficult to hear that sort of thing and I lost a good many friends over money issues because they didn't have money or their scripts weren't selling and mine were.

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

I was terribly upset not to be in 'Dickensian,' so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs. Gamp, is done brilliantly by Pauline Collins, but I entered this world for no other reason than to play that part.

Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing.

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.