Taylor Swift Quotes

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.

Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

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.

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

People will become your enemies if you become eminent too quickly in life, and you will be ineffectual. Rising slowly in the world, people will be your supporters and your happiness will be assured.

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

Everybody on top has a ton of haters.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

I started to do everything I could to succeed, but found that the more successful I became, the less people liked me.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

I think some of the people on the Left... were extremely jealous of me getting what they thought was all of the attention.

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.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

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.

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

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.