Quotes About Admiration

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.

It's odd for me to compare my stuff to Lee Child's, because I'm such of fan of his, and also because it's curiously something I never did until I kept hearing about our protagonists' similarities.

It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.

I let people draw their own conclusions about my similarities to Dale Sr.

I've seen comparisons between myself and Bobby Moore. It's nice to be told there are similarities, but nobody will come close to him - what a player, what a man!

My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me. 'The Sacrifice' was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead.

I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Paul Simon is the king!

Ringo is incredible. He's the greatest. Simon Kirke is great as well, so is Ian Paice. All of these British drummers from the '60s are great. They were big influences on me.

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

The love and liking that people have for me has bowled me over, and I am simply overwhelmed.

I follow Ronda. I am big fan of her. She is simply the best for me.

The rancor I once bore recedes, supplanted by admiration and a sense even of loss at the mates we might have been and the times we might have shared.

We become friends instantly. I simply gravitate to him. Tony is the first person I've ever met who actually possesses self-discipline. I have never encountered this before. Other individuals I've admired for their focus and commitment have jobs or are in the military. They adhere to their institution's norms and protocols. That's discipline, but it's not self-discipline. It's externally imposed, not generated from within.

I did not think them perfect; no man may be a hero to his valet or political consultant.

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.

His laugh rose and fell and rose again, and I told myself I could love him for that alone.

Some lives are exemplary, others not; and of exemplary lives, there are those which invite us to imitate them, and those which we regard from a distance with a mixture of revulsion, pity, and reverence.

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe, to breathe more deeply. But for that it is necessary to go beyond avidity; to identify with something beyond achievement, beyond the gathering of power.

Sometimes the true value of the piece is how much a person loves it.