Sam Richardson Quotes

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

Every time I meet Rahman sir, it's a fan moment for me. I don't take the fact that I am working with him lightly. I get excited every time I see and work with him. But I don't embarrass him.

People have all kinds of approaches when they come up to me. Some of them are so nervous: 'You know, Mr. Cosby, you are my biggest fan!' I am? Some of them even claim that I raised them.

People want to adulate people.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

When you admire someone's work, you are amazed by who you think they are.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I've got a lot of respect for Mike Hayden.

I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

I respect General Halutz very much so.

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.

I respect Dev saab greatly.

Mike Brown is a guy I definitely respect.

I respect Ancelotti a lot.

I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don't care about nothing else! This dude saved my life.

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.