Quotes About Admiration

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.

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

One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

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.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

Wayne is my favorite person to work with though, because ooohh, oohh, Lil Wayne is just too good, he's just too good.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

Howard Stern is one of my idols.

A roast is really an honor. If they picked me to be roasted, I'd be the most flattered I'd be in my life. If I could pick some people to roast, I'd pick my heroes, Don Rickles and Howard Stern. Those are the people I'd like to give some honor to.

I'll never forget when I heard Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs for the first time. I was just blown away, and it changed my whole approach to guitar.

Certainly there were so many different people I had as heroes growing up. Steve Martin is always my number one. David Letterman's show, that was important. And 'Saturday Night Live,' obviously.

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.