Admiration quotes

“If there's one thing I admire in someone it's punctuality. And flexibilty!”
Daniel Stern - Officer Richard Lymangood

“You must allow me to tell you how much I admire and love you.”

Laurence Olivier - Mr. Darcy

“- Secretary of State John Hay: General, you were one of the finest cavalry officers in the Confederacy.
- Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler: Let me tell you something... Bedford Forrest had 32 horses shot out from under him, but he killed 33 Yankees. Forrest was better!”
R. Lee Ermey - Secretary of State John Hay
Gary Busey - Gen. Joseph Wheeler

“- Kate Linville Holroyd: I can't believe I called the high priest a cocksucker.
- Harvey Holroyd: I thought you were terrific.”
Tuesday Weld - Kate
Martin Mull - Harvey

“That's the way we do things in this country, quietly, with dignity. That's what the rest of the world has always admired us for.”

Helen Mirren - The Queen

“- Lancelot: My salvation is to die a Knight of the Round Table.
- Arthur: You are that. And much more. You are its greatest Knight. You are what is best in men.
- Lancelot: It is the old wound my King. It has never healed. Guinevere. Is she Queen again?
- Arthur: She is Lancelot.”

Nicholas Clay - Lancelot
Nigel Terry - King Arthur

“- Omar: He was a friend once, for years.
- Papa Hussein: There were times when he didn't deserve your admiration so much.”

Gordon Warnecke - Omar
Roshan Seth - Papa Hussein

“- George Sand: Chopin, do you love me?
- Frederic Chopin: God help me, I do. You are superb.”
Judy Davis - George Sand
Hugh Grant - Frederic Chopin

“A girl I loved in high school was with the co-captain of the lacrosse team and I wanted to take her from him so I decided to come up with the next big thing.”

Justin Timberlake - Sean Parker

“I love that when I breathe you in you smell like cake batter. And I love that you have this insane way of talking in circles that makes perfect sense.”

Gabriel Macht - Johnny

“You're Beauty and the Beast in one luscious Christmas gift pack.”

Danny DeVito - Penguin

“- Cora Munro: What are you looking at, sir?
- Hawkeye: I'm looking at you, miss.”
Madeleine Stowe - Cora Munro
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“Douvier killed a wandering transvestite just to impress his godfather?”
Peter Sellers - Clouseau

“If I didn't have to hate her, I'd adore her.”
Julia Roberts - Julianne Potter

“- Coach Gary Gaines: So how is it out there?
- Ivory Christian: They're fast, they're big, they're dirty... plus they're fast.
- Coach Gary Gaines: You said that already.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Coach Gary Gaines
Lee Jackson - Ivory Christian

“Basil and I were a close team. We had many cases together, but I'll always look back on that first with the most fondness; my introduction to Basil of Baker Street, the great mouse detective.”

Val Bettin - Dr. David Q. Dawson

“My point is, sir, that you would not know a good creampuff if it jumped up and licked you on the ass.”
Stanley Tucci - Arthur

“All I can say is, they did right by me. And I'm bringin' me and a mess of flowers to their funeral.”

“I'm looking at you in the same way as the water with which you wash yourself or the air you move in or the light that shines on you.”

Charles Laughton - Rembrandt

“Your life is so utterly without meaning that simply to survive you have to reinvent yourself. Because if people can't find you, they can't dislike you.”

Christian McKay - Orson Welles

Michael "Squints" Palledorous walked a little taller that day and we had to tip our hats to him. He was lucky she hadn't beat the crap out of him. We wouldn't have blamed her. What he'd done was sneaky, rotten, and low...and cool. Not another one among us would have ever, in 1,000,000 years, even for $1,000,000, had the guts to put the move on... (continue)(continue reading)

Tom Guiry - Scotty Smalls

“You know, Sir, I do admire you, and I sure would like to touch the gun that's gonna kill Billy the Kid.”
Emilio Estevez - William H. 'Billy the Kid' Bonney

“I read, I smoke, I admire.”
Elizabeth Banks - Laura Bush

“- Steckle: You're being groomed...
- Carter: I'm being groomed! Mark, thank you, thank you. I'm going to kick so much ass for you, I'm going to take no prisoners, I'm going to be your ninja assassin!”
Clark Gregg - Steckle
Christopher Grace - Carter

“Boys never used to notice me before. I wasn't even on their list of alternatives.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth