Quotes About Admiration

DC is smart and he's a big inspiration for me. Thirty-nine years old and two belts. I can't really trash the guy and I can't really have beef with him.

I got to work for my hero and travel with him on a regular basis. It doesn't get much better than that for a job.

I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.

When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.

Fighters who speak disparagingly about fighters from years gone by do us all a disservice. It is treacherous.

You have to tread lightly with stan culture.

Aretha Franklin is and will always be a national treasure.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

I think Kyle Chandler is something of a national treasure.

Lee is such a brilliant rival. I treasure the opportunities we have to play each other.

These are icons to be treasured.

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

My standard for the women in my life is like, 'If no man can treat you better than I can treat you, they can't come.' You gotta step up to the plate. With respect, with acknowledgment, with support.

Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.

I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

Children need teachers who have stars in their eyes themselves and who treat them with respect.

Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.

It's really important that when you come to a club, you know the history. My dream was always Real Madrid or Barcelona, but for the fans of Tottenham, the club is the biggest in the world. So that's how I treated it.

I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness.