Top 440 Admire Quotes

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!

I don’t know that I ‘look up’ to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work – people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don’t agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

My readers often tell me that what they admire about my books is my ability to write from so many points of view. My challenge to myself is whether I’ll ever be able to write a novel just from one point of view. It seems impossible.

Every time you get the chance to work with somebody you admire and would like to collaborate with… it feels like the best opportunity that’s ever come your way, whether that’s in fringe theatre or a really big-budget Hollywood movie.

I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

I’m kind of shy when it comes to women, so I don’t really approach them. I’ll just admire them from afar, and if they happen to say something to me, then maybe I’ll find the courage to say something.

We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning’s path when he retired. But hey, that’s natural. As we should, we admire those in any craft, no less so in sports, who appear out of nowhere to achieve remarkable feats.

I’d like to play Matt Damon’s daddy. He’s a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I’d like to play his dad one day.

I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don’t have that feeling.

I recognize that I’m probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on ‘The Colbert Report,’ and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it – on his show and on Twitter.

Grace is what matters in anything – especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That’s a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

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

I actually don’t read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I’m still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn’t have to talk to press.

I love film. I’ve always been enchanted by doing film. It’s something I grew up watching – classics and directors I admire – so that’s something I’ve always been passionate about.

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn’t have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

Janet Malcolm’s probably the writer I most admire and who’s most influenced me.

As far as characters in fiction that I really admire – it’s pretty strong to say you would wish that you had created another character – but I’ll throw out Will Graham, the protagonist in ‘Red Dragon,’ a book I’ve read several times.

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I’ll throw in the towel, because he’s got no taste.

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one’s understanding of the complexities of life, and I’m bad at it. I’m slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

I would love to be looked at some day – and I’m not ever saying I’m at this level – but I’d love to be mentioned in the same breath as a Bowie or an Eno. Those are the people that I admire artistically, their career trajectory, the integrity throughout their career, the bravery of their career.

I don’t usually watch a lot of TV, but ‘Mad Men’ changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

Any time you get to work with someone new who you admire, who’s awesome, it’s great; you’re excited to be there.

I’ve done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

I think there’s no city quite like New York, and I’ve seen most of the developed cities of the world. I admire this place, its energy. It’s the repository of so much history and culture and diversity.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply – like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh – don’t repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that’s wonderful.

I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire.

There are many people I admire and seek advice from, but for the most part, I just follow my gut instead of trying to mimic someone else’s leadership style.

All I can say is that I did admire ‘The Lives of Others’, which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.

The tech titans and the tech guys who I most admire are the ones behind the scenes.

Meeting someone you admire, and then that person’s like, ‘I’m a fan of your work’ – it’s a really neat feeling.

You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that’s a world that you’ll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you’re paying the bills.

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire’s work is that he, like the Greeks I’ve spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff – huge, human, moral issues – what do we owe to those we love?

I actually admire the Indian artiste ‘Lost Stories.’ He made a remix of my song ‘Faded.’ That is really good and cool because it actually represented Indian music. I just loved the song; it so unique.

If I’ve learned anything from TJ, it’s that life is a fine balance of holding on, letting go, and never looking back unless it’s to admire how far you’ve come.

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

My faith comes before anything. It has also taught me to respect and admire people for what they are and who they are.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

One of the things I’ve learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that’s an actor I’m working with, the subject matter, or a book.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I’m not capable, I’m too cowardly for that.

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

You’d be pretty stupid not to pick up things that others do well, people you admire.

I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren’t necessarily big sellers.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

From an artist’s point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set a standard of excellence. I listen to them not for what they are doing, but to study where they are coming from because, for me, jazz is life experience.

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.

One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier,’ which was a taut political thriller, and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel.

It’s been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

I have been lucky enough to work with people who inspire me, who I admire and respect, and who have made films – before working with me – that I continually return to over the years because they are so good.