Admirable Quotes

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Originally, I didn`t like (John Ford)--because of his material: for example, the comic secondary characters, the brutality, the male-female relationships typified by the man`s slapping the woman on the backside. But eventually I came to understand that he had achieved an absolute uniformity of technical expertise. And his technique is the more admirable for being unobtrusive: His camera is invisible; his staging is perfect; he maintains a smoothness of surface in which no one scene is allowed to become more important than any other. Such mastery is possible only after one has made an enormous number of films. Questions of quality aside, John Ford is the Georges Simenon of directors.

- François Truffaut

(speaking in the 1970s) "I`ve been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It`s my cup of tea."

- Greer Garson

(On his favorite roles) Good Will Hunting (1997) is so close to my heart because my best friend (Ben Affleck) and I invented him, he`s from Boston, and it was what we knew. The stakes were pretty high with "Good Will Hunting" and it worked out as best as it can in this business - people saw the movie, it got good reviews, I was happy with the finished product, and they gave us an Oscar. I am also pretty fond of "Tom Ripley" - playing smart and sinister is just so much fun. I wasn`t that fond of his choice of swim trunks, though, so a few points away for that. And "John Grady Cole" in All the Pretty Horses (2000) was good, too. The integrity of that character is admirable. Unfortunately, I am the only one who saw that movie, so no one will get that reference.

- Matt Damon

Audrey`s been great for me. She has brought out a side of me that`s more mischievous and fun that I had suppressed, trying to be an adult. She has made it okay to use the power one has as a woman to be manipulative, to be precocious. She goes after what she wants vehemently and she takes it. I think that`s really admirable. I love that about her. - on playing Audrey Horne in "Twin Peaks" (1990)

- Sherilyn Fenn

I liked the hard-core truth of `Rude Awakening`. But when I first read it, I was scared of it. Part of me was, like, it`s so unattractive! Does she have to vomit on herself? Does she then have to fall in it? God, what`s going on here?! But I liked that it didn`t glamorize alcohol. And what`s admirable about Billie is that she`s a straight shooter. She doesn`t have a lot of pretense. It`s like, `Take me as I am. You like me, fine! You don`t, I don`t give a damn! There`s something quite empowering about somebody who doesn`t care what other people think. Billie is learning about herself. She`s recognized that she has a problem with drugs and alcohol, and she`s trying to straighten it out. - on playing Billie Frank in "Rude Awakening" (1998)

- Sherilyn Fenn

(on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":) "Everybody on the set is fantastic and there are so many interesting people. I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore -- she teaches me to dance. She`s definitely one of my favorite people on the set. And Alexis Denisof is such a dynamic actor. He`s phenomenal. There is so much I can see happening to this character (Gunn), it makes me excited to think about all the ways he can branch out. Charles is a fantastic character. I really love his spirit. He`s so pure and clean and unaffected. I love the extent to which he goes to protect the people he loves. I find that fascinating and admirable." (March 18, 2003)

- J. August Richards

Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be ... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course. - Talking about modern Hollywood`s stereotypical portrayals of religious figures

- Charlton Heston

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

- Jasmine Guy

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

- Ben Kingsley

(On Bruce Willis) "We became good friends during A Few Good Men. He was shooting Death Becomes Her right next door and, of course, he`d come over to visit his wife and we started hanging out and have been good friends since. He`s amazing. One of the things I admire, separate from his work which I`ve always enjoyed, is that the people he`s surrounded by are friends he`s known for 25 years or more. It doesn`t feel like a posse. It feels like he created his own family at work, which is pretty admirable. When you`re young and thinking about going into show business your closest friends are the first to say, "Someday you`re going to be famous and we`ll all hang out together." You say, "Yeah, yeah," and it never happens. But I stay in touch with three of my best friends which I`ve known for 35 years. We make an annual trek to Vegas for the Super Bowl and for those three or four days it`s heaven on earth. Bruce is unbelievably generous and loyal and a true inspiration in that regard as well. I love working with him. I love being around him. He`s the party."

- Kevin Pollak

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.

- Anita Brookner

What especially touched me was the fact that despite his personal experience, he never became bitter, and carried on in an admirable and just manner.

- Helmut Kohl

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

- Rex Stout

To be one`s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

- Irving Wallace

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, `It all depends on me.`

- Aad Jacobs

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

- Abdul Sattar

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

- Adam Braidwood

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

- Adrian Grice

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

- Alan Stern

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

- Alexandre Barros

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

- Amanda Tate

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

- Andrea Pacini

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

- Andrew McCormick

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

- Oscar Wilde