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I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.