Quotes About Admire Someone

#1. I admire someone like Beyonce. She has amazing commitment. I needed to accept that I probably did not fit into that forum. Doing that 'The Cherry Thing' record was a big part of finding that place where I belong, where I may shine, but I never doubted it was there.

Neneh Cherry

#2. When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

Nicolas Roeg

#3. Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#4. When you admire someone you want to be them, when you love someone, you want to be with them.

Gary Edward Gedall

#5. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.

Victoria Justice

#7. I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

Billie Holiday

#8. The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.

Aspen Matis

#9. It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

Benicio Del Toro

#10. I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him

Leonard Nimoy

#11. If we truly knew someone's entire life story and all the things they have been through we would drop all jealousy and comparison. We would admire their ability to shine.

Renae A. Sauter

#12. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

Ayn Rand

#13. I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.

Cyrus Broacha

#14. The six people you must find today ...
Someone to love.
Someone to thank.
Someone to be grateful for.
Someone to forgive
Someone to forget
Someone to admire.

James Altucher

#15. I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

Nicolas Cage

#16. I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.

Nasim Pedrad

#17. Some think that emulating those we admire makes us more effective and guarantees the result they exhibit. The goal is not to duplicate someone else's greatness or purpose, destiny or creativity.

T.D. Jakes

#18. Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Blaise Pascal

#19. If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Christy Hall

#20. Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.

Harold Brodkey

#21. Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

LZ Granderson

#22. You have a fighting spirit. I admire that, or would admire it should you choose to harness it to a worthier cause than that of someone considered a criminal subversive by his own national government.

Philip Roth

#23. I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

Jo Brand

#24. Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

Rudy Giuliani

#25. Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.

Tasha Smith

#26. I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

Paul Auster

#27. If you love someone, allow them the freedom to grow. If you respect and admire them, work harder to be like them. Because if you don't, you might be the one wondering why they're the success story and you're just a shadow in their spotlight

Jes Fuhrmann

#28. I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a third party for a hero, for someone to look up to and admire. I want that to be ME. I want that person to be MOMMY for them.

Lashinda Demus

#29. To love someone, I have to admire and respect them.

Anne Frank

#30. It's disappointing when you finally get to meet someone you admire and he conducts himself as a jerk.

David Letterman

#31. It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.

Emun Elliott

#32. Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Beyonce Knowles

#33. In fact, I'd go one better, and venture that there's nothing more important than friendship: if it should then take you to the ends of the earth with someone you like and admire, so much the better

Paul Grogan

#34. This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence.

Muriel Barbery

#35. If you can find one thing a day to smile about (even a remembrance), or one thing to laugh about (not at someone else's expense) then you are the type of person I admire.

Karen Wallen

#36. I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

Tom Odell

#37. By learning to see and appreciate beauty, we learn to reject self-interested pragmatism. If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and abused without scruple.

Pope Francis

#38. The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

Ken Livingstone

#39. I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

Jason Schwartzman

#40. Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

Elvis Presley

#41. Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.

Sean Pertwee

#42. Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

James Broughton

#43. 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.

Michael Ealy

#44. I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

Whit Stillman

#45. I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Richard Bach

#46. Whenever I watch someone doing something, even if it doesn't turn out so great, I at least admire their intentions and stuff.

Robert Downey Jr.

#47. I admire the hell out of her. You can't have sex with someone you admire.

Jerry Seinfeld

#48. I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

Kristen Stewart

#49. You have to admire the human spirit - we'll continue building things just so someone else can watch them fall.

Andersen Prunty

#50. When someone says, 'I admire your character,' I never know whether the person is talking about my ethics or referring to someone in one of my books.

Stifyn Emrys

#51. You may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#52. Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Ayn Rand

#53. Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

Jason Statham

#54. Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Barbara Walters

#55. I was being chase by half a dozen guys at the time. Didn't have time to stop and admire the craftsmanship. There was a Ming vase there?
I believe so. You smashed it over someone's head, picked up a shard, and stabbed another in the chest with it.
Ah, good times.

Wesley Chu

#56. When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.

Jack Reynor

#57. A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kitty Kelley

#58. When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Jeremy Renner

#59. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

Rose Leslie

#60. I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

Pam Dawber

#61. Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.

Morrissey

#62. Few things inspire me more than a timely smile from someone I truly admire.

Robert J. Braathe

#63. Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

Frederick Lenz

#64. I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Benicio Del Toro

#65. People are funny when they say they would like to spend time with me because they admire me. I admire myself too. The question is, why would I spend my time with someone I don't admire?

Robin Sacredfire

#66. I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.

Nora Roberts

#67. You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

Elizabeth Harrower

#68. No one will ever admire you for being someone else.

Kim Dallmeier

#69. When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

John C. Maxwell

#70. I guess I've grown to admire Queen Elizabeth II more. I've always struggled with my feelings about the Royal Family. I am a supporter. I'm not someone who thinks we should get rid of them. But what I've struggled with is the lack of emotionality that the Queen seems to share.

Samuel Barnett

#71. I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

Logan Lerman

#72. The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

James Tiptree Jr.

#73. I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.

Emil Cioran

#74. I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Robert Burns

#75. Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.

Mandy Moore

#76. The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.

Seymour Cassel

#77. When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Edgar Watson Howe

#78. The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Jackson Katz