Best 280 quotes in «admire quotes» category

I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.

I don't often watch broad comedies and think, "Oh well, I could have been a part of that." It's usually the opposite. I usually watch them, enjoy them, admire them, and think, "You know, I really have nothing to contribute to that".

I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

I'm ambivalent about the Orange Prize. I was really proud to be shortlisted alongside the other writers, whom I admire. That said, I don't know if it's best way of addressing gender inequality problems.

I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

I really admire visual storytelling that shows you what's happening, instead of tells you what's happening. I think it really forces the filmmaking to be very clear.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

I think Sarah Palin is amazing. I totally admire her.

I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.

It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

It's a scary thing, when a person you admire is suddenly revealed to be absolutely, truly human.