Admiration quotes

“I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.”
Sir Michael Caine

“There are a lot of directors I'd still love to work with. Paul Thomas Anderson is someone I'd love to work with. I think Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is very talented. Ang Lee is very talented. I mean, there are a lot of people. There are many great directors out there.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.”
Leonardo DiCaprio On Meryl Streep

“I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“Jack Lemmon, my darling Jack, is the epitome of what it means to be a nice person. He was always prepared, yet mischievously open for a good laugh. His genius was so riveting that I would often come in on my days off or stay late at night just to watch him cast his comic spell before the camera.”
Shirley MacLaine On Jack Lemmon

“When I was young, MGM was a very exciting place to be. I've always loved movie stars, loved movies, loved everything about them except doing them. It was so tremendously thrilling to go into the commissary for lunch. They were all there - Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr. And there was the lovely, sweet smell of the puncake...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liz Taylor On Clark Gable

“All the time I was in Berlin Garbo was my favorite. I only had Sunday afternoon free; I was playing, rehearsing all the other time. So on Sunday afternoons I used to go to see Garbo's pictures. I followed them from one theater to another; maybe sometimes I saw one five or six times. And when I came to America I thought perhaps I will meet her. I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Marlene Dietrich On Greta Garbo

“I just wanted to be one of the guys. And of all the guys I knew, you were the coolest. You were smart, quick-witted. This was my chance to do what I loved. And to do it for fun. That's all I ever wanted. I thought that's what you wanted to.”
Josh Gad - Steve Wozniak

“- Jafar: Excellent work, Iago.
- Iago: Ah, go on.
- Jafar: No, really. On a scale of one to ten, you are an eleven.
- Iago: Oh, Jafar, you're too kind. I'm embarrassed. I'm blushing.”

Jonathan Freeman - Jafar
Gilbert Gottfried - Iago

“Whatever Margo is doing, wherever she is now, I'm sure it's something special.”
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff - Quentin

“The thing is... we all wanna be remembered. But Hazel's different. Hazel knows the truth. She didn't want a million admirers, she just wanted one. And she got it.”
Ansel Elgort - Gus

“- Miss Tracy Milford: Students, J. Edgar Hoover was the founder and director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. He was a great American.
- Herbert Jones: He was a fascist transvestite and I hope he rots in Hell!”

Valerie Mahaffey - Miss Tracy Milford
Michael Blake - Herbert Jones

“I don't know how else to put this: Make sure they remember you.”
Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy

“A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.”
Kenneth Williams

“It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.”
Kenneth Williams On Noel Pierce Coward

“- Kevin Rawley: I speak from the heart, off the cuff, like my man, JC at the Sermon on the Mount. I think that's what you've always admired about me.
- Greg Focker: Well, I got news for you. You're not Jesus.”
Owen Wilson - Kevin Rawley
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker

“Mr Smart, evidently I underestimated you. You're not a complete fool, after all. Almost, very close, but not complete.”
Vittorio Gassman - Sauvage

“Your positive perception of me is vital to my existence. Besides, it is not everyday a father can give the world to his child.”

Dan Aykroyd - Beldar Conehead

“My problem is the repetitiveness. Y'know... wine, women, and whiteline fever, over and over. Whereas, progressive is existential. You got these chromatic melodies, right? To use for, like, a springboard into all kinds of experiments. Even the backbeat is full of nuances. You know that there's a central rhythmic idea going on, but you're never...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mark Arnott - Jeff

“The thirst for knowledge is a very commendable thing.”

Tom Hanks - Professor G.H. Dorr

“- Pat Nixon: I just wish you knew how much I love you, that's all. It took me a long time to fall in love with you, Dick. But I did. And it doesn't make you happy. You want them to love you...
- Richard M. Nixon: No, I don't. I'm not Jack...
- Pat Nixon: But they never will, Dick. No matter how many elections you win, they never will.”

Joan Allen - Pat Nixon
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“I admire vision, Lady Bradley, in all its forms.”
Randall Duk Kim - General Alak

“I wanna talk about how bad you make this room look. I never knew what a dump it was until you came in here.”

Jeff Bridges - Bad Blake

“Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.”
Dermot Mulroney

“- Lancelot: I gave up my castle and my lands. This is my domain. Within this metal skin. And I pledge all that I still own. Muscle, bone, blood and the heart that pumps it.
- Arthur: And a great heart it is. Sir Lancelot, you will be my champion.”
Nicholas Clay - Lancelot
Nigel Terry - King Arthur