Quotes About Respect

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

I'm a fan of Kobe and LeBron. People always try to make me pick one or the other, but I think they're both great. They both deliver.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

I honestly can't pick a favorite person I like to work with - that would be like choosing a favorite child!

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

I think Neil Magny gets picked on a lot because people don't think he is that good. I like the guy a lot.

When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.

I'm cool with Dr. Dre, I have his phone number, and he picks up when I call.

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you listen to his greatest hits and learn the format of the songs, but don't try to play it note-for-note.

I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.

I've played some horrid characters in the 70 pictures or so that I've made. But none of the roles degraded my sex. And I've never made a movie I'd be ashamed to have any of my friends or family see.

People take secret pictures of me... it fries my brain. I'm just a bloke, Just come and talk to me, I'd love to talk to you.

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.

My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.

Never cut the hand that feed you, otherwise you are no-good piece of garbage.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he would never say anything back. That's what I learned from him: Don't retaliate to articles or pieces or to things that are said about me.