I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success - David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer - but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.

I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

I'm an admirer of Guardiola's work.

I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.

I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

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

I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful!

I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I admire is to ask them how do they receive songs.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.