Top 101 Resent Quotes

I don’t watch horror films, because I don’t want those images in my psyche, and I resent having them forced on me before a movie of my choosing.

I really hope everyone who saw ‘Twilight’ sees ‘Warm Bodies,’ but at the same time… I don’t resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don’t judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.

I don’t ever really feel guilty about music, quite frankly. When you’re younger, you think that anything you don’t like, you have to hate. I’m so far beyond that perspective. Although, I will say I resent Bruno Mars for making me like him as much as I do. I wish that he wasn’t so likeable.

I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.

You don’t only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you’re more worried about the people who love you.

There’s a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can’t pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.

The only person you resent is yourself.

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

My parents couldn’t handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn’t resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn’t resent this, but I didn’t particularly enjoy it, and whenever I could, I withdrew into my own private world.

I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that’s okay. I used to resent that, but I don’t anymore.

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

I would never hold my children back from that. I would never want them to resent me for holding them back from their father’s wedding.

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture – as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

That’s one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you’ve got to resist it. You’ve got to resent it. You’ve got to fight against it.

I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn’t be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I’m a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don’t speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I’m comfortable doing.

I resent the label on cigarettes. If they’re going to warn you, why don’t they put the same sign at the entrance to every freeway or on every banana that’s sold? You can slip on the peel, you know.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned – they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

The internet in hotels should be free – and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that’s censorship.

You cannot have the media so close to you that it becomes your voice. This is no good because it becomes too extreme, and people will resent it.

I resent ever being stereotyped.

I don’t resent at all people saying, ‘Oh, he’s like a sweetheart’… but within comedy, it’s a very funny way to talk about someone because it usually means they don’t have much of an act.

Sometimes I look at my opponent, and I resent them because of the time I miss with my son by having to train for them, and that gives me even more strength.

It’s hard for a man to live with a successful woman – they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.

I don’t really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi.

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ absolutely riveting.

It’s kind of cliche, but communication is the biggest thing in a relationship. You have to talk; you have to express yourselves. You don’t want to look back and resent not being heard.

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public’s health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don’t cure the ill that you seek to cure.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

In global health, emergency vaccine stockpiles are like the insurance policy you never really wanted to take out: you resent the cost and have mixed feelings about never making a claim. Moreover, given that a stockpile is often a last resort, if you ever fall back on it, you have, in some way, already failed.

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes – they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. ‘This is the way you must look; this is this season’s must-have.’ I really resent the phrase ‘must-have.’ I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.

I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I’m black. No matter that every single room I go to, I’m usually the darkest person there… I kind of resent that mentality. I’m just an individual.

I was very lucky to get drafted into the situation I came into. I could have gone somewhere where other guys would resent me because they want the ball.

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask ‘why can’t we just have what we voted to join – a common market?’

I don’t resent anything.

I think a lot of people don’t really understand. They call me a fat drag queen, which I resent, because I’m a character actor and a very good one.

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest – I don’t want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

I’m not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.

It’s not people who resent successful people; it’s resentful people who resent successful people.

In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It’s something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.

Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I’ve got a lovely husband and children, and I didn’t lose weight to find those things.

Recognizing your talents doesn’t mean believing they’re limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn’t lead to pride, but instead to humility; you’re less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.