Someone You Admire Quotes

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

Jerry Seinfeld

#2. 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

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

Nicolas Cage

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

David Letterman

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Aspen Matis

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Elvis Presley

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

Jason Schwartzman

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Gary Edward Gedall

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Jeremy Renner

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Andersen Prunty

#28. 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

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

Ayn Rand

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

Nicolas Roeg

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Morrissey

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

Kim Dallmeier

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

Elizabeth Harrower

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

Frederick Lenz

#37. 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

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

Christy Hall