Admire Quotes

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

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

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.