Envy quotes

“- Yentl: I envy them.
- Yentl's Father: The booksellers?
- Yentl: No, not the booksellers, the students. Talking about life, the mysteries of the universe and I'm learning how to tell a herring from a carp.”
Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Nehemiah Persoff - Reb Mendel 'Papa'

“If I didn't have to hate her, I'd adore her.”
Julia Roberts - Julianne Potter

“You're mother earth incarnate.”
Julia Roberts - Isabel Kelly

“- Paul Kirkwood: What kind of future can she have with this guy, he cuts meat!
- Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland: You plow snow.
- Kev: Hey, at least meat you can eat.”
Michael Rapaport - Paul Kirkwood
Matt Dillon - Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland
Max Perlich - Kev

“- Lex Luthor: The only picture of my father and me appears in the LuthorCorp annual report.
- Jonathan Kent: Is this the part where I'm supposed to feel sorry for you?
- Lex Luthor: No. I just want you to understand if I'm guilty of anything regarding your family, it's envy.”

Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor
John Schneider - Jonathan Kent

“Carl spends the evening with a beautiful woman and I'm stuck here with a lunatic and a corpse.”
Emilio Estevez - James St. James

“Don't hate me 'cause you ain't me!”
Steven Grayhm - Russ - Party Boy

“Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl. But, I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes. Jonathan says it is a defect of the aristocracy that they say what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I'm not surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she.”
Winona Ryder - Mina Murray

“You're happy. I hate that!”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman

“You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.”
Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie

“- Jock: Hey, baby. You're sucking on the wrong nossil.
- Debbie: Hey, yo, needle dick! I bet you're the only male in this school suffering from penis envy.”

Duane Davis - Jock
Brooke Theiss - Debbie

“- Elliot Richards: Is that all you ever think about? Do you think everything is about sex?
- The Devil: No, of course not! I mean, there's greed, gluttony, sloth, anger, vanity, envy.”
Brendan Fraser - Elliot Richards
Liz Hurley - The Devil

“- Robert McBain: You know, I get up in the morning and I go to work. I go to the same bar each night and drink the same beer. I laugh, I talk. But when I saw Santos on tv, I got jealous. Because, he was doing what he did best.
- Frank Bruce: What, you miss the smell of napalm in the morning?”
Christopher Walken - Robert McBain
Michael Ironside - Frank Bruce

You know that whole deal about "penis envy"? Not true. No. Half of women don't even like it. You know who has penis envy? We do. That's why we cheat and we lie, because we're all obsessed with our own equipment!
Mel Gibson - Nick Marshall

“- Ed: Why don't we all agree to stop here.Let this bimbo have his money. I mean isn't our self respect worth more than any inheritance?
- Frank: No.”
Bob Balaban - Ed
Phil Hartman - Frank

“- Student Journalist: As your party's leading presidential candidate, you are a staunch advocate of nuclear proliferation. Does wanting more and bigger missiles stem from a penis envy of the Russians?
- Norman Mart: No, son. That's primitive thinking. I will add, though, that I'll put my slab on the yard stick against Gorby any day.”
Patrick O'Neill - Student Journalist
Clu Gulager - Norman Mart

“Show business is, is dog-eat-dog. It's worse than dog-eat-dog. It's dog-doesn't-return-other-dog's-phone-calls, which reminds me I should check my answering service.”
Woody Allen - Cliff Stern

“The weak are always trying to sabatoge the strong.”
Reese Witherspoon - Tracy Flick

“- Z: Why'd I have to be born a worker? You soldiers get all the glory. Plus, you get to go out in the world. You know, you meet interesting insects; you get to kill them.
- Weaver: Yeah, but you get to spend all day with those beautiful worker girls.
- Z: Weaver, they're career girls. They're obsessed with digging.”
Woody Allen - Z
Sylvester Stallone - Weaver

I turned on the TV. They were playing "Queen Christina". That close-up of you at the end, I thought it would never end. I mean it just went on and on and on. Oh, God, how I hated you. I really hated myself. I thought if I looked like you, if I had that face, if I had those eyes, I wouldn't be so alone.

Anne Bancroft - Estelle Rolfe

“You've taken all the joy out of life. I was all through with this kind of stuff. I mean, I knew I'd never have it - but there was no envy in my heart.”

Veronica Lake - The Girl

“- Billy Kwan: The one great advantage of being a dwarf is that you can be wiser than other people and no one envies you.
- Guy Hamilton: You're not a dwarf.
- Billy Kwan: That's what I like about you, Guy. You really don't care, do you? Or, maybe you just don't see.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan
Mel Gibson - Guy Hamilton

“- Corinne Burns: You are so jealous of me. I'm everything you ever wanted to be.
- Billy: A cunt?
- Corinne Burns: Exactly.”
Diane Lane - Corinne Burns
Ray Winstone - Billy - Vocals for The Looters

“- Charles Morse: So what do you value me for, Bob?
- Robert Green: I like your style, your wife's pretty cute too.
- Charles Morse: So how are you planning to kill me?”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Charles Morse
Alec Baldwin - Robert Green

“There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.”
Gina Gershon - Cristal Connors