Quotes About Admiration

Once you put something like 'The A-Team' on the map, it does become part of the DNA of television. People grab little pieces of it. I certainly grabbed little pieces of other people's shows when I was creating my shows.

I'm pretty sure every team in the NBA would love to have Paul Pierce on their team.

I love people who have really long locs. I love how they can go in different directions or pile it up into a big crown on the head.

The fan mail I get every day is incredible. It piles through the door from not just Britain but everywhere. It is so great to have that support behind me - everyone says I am an inspiration. It is great.

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to and admire personally as a piece of writing.

I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

I love Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. I really do. It doesn't matter what style they had - whether it was pin-up or whatever - it just worked for them, and it looked effortless even though it was fabulous. I like anything that just looks effortless.

To sit next to Walter Hill, and to be able to exchange ideas back and forth, and for him to be able to tell you that he likes what you're doing - I don't know. I kind of pinch myself.

Tiesto is legend. I've been in the studio many times. We did a tour together; I jumped onstage with him, he jumped onstage with me. Still, every time, I have to pinch myself and realize this is the guy who made me start doing what I'm doing right now.

I have always loved John Turturro, but I think it wasn't until being on set with him - that was a real pinch me moment for me.

I really enjoy Lana Del Rey, and Pink Floyd are amazing.

Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that's been the pinnacle for me with cricket.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

Once I saw Roddy Piper I knew exactly what I was going to be doing when I grew up.

I loved 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper. I love the guys that can talk. I'm a big fan of The Rock, but I'm also a fan of Coach.

David Silva is a great player, and also, off the pitch, he's a great lad.

When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.

Growing up I had various pictures of Marilyn Monroe on my walls, and watched her films time and time again. She oozed a fantastic femininity, was curvy and sexy, and was a real woman. I was, and am, a bit obsessed with her.