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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
Actor · American · b. 1930
If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.
Frank Langella
Actor · American · b. 1940
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
Erykah Badu
Musician · American · b. 1971
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
Jimmy Chamberlin
Musician · American · b. 1964
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Ricardo Montalban
Actor · Mexican · 1920 – 2009
I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.
Little Milton
Musician · American · 1934 – 2005
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
Thomas Jane
Actor · American · b. 1969
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Actor · American · 1940 – 1973
The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.
Jewel Kilcher
Musician · American · b. 1974
The Bee Gees, to us, was the three brothers. In Maurice's name, we would respect that and not be the Bee Gees anymore.
Robin Gibb
Musician · English · b. 1949
Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom
Model · American · b. 1965
Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.
Marilyn Monroe
Actress · American · 1926 – 1962
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Imelda Marcos
Celebrity · b. 1930
I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
Lee Trevino
Athlete · American · b. 1939
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
Val Kilmer
Actor · American · b. 1959
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
Sophia Bush
Actress · American · b. 1982
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.
Jeff Goldblum
Actor · American · b. 1952
It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
Tina Weymouth
Musician · American · b. 1950
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Jasmine Guy
Actress · American · b. 1964
I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
Mark Ruffalo
Actor · American · b. 1967
I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole
Musician · American · 1919 – 1965
Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.
Lena Horne
Actress · American · 1917 – 2010
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
Robert Wyatt
Musician · English · b. 1945
I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.
Johnny Vegas
Comedian · British · b. 1971
People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.
Jennifer Capriati
Athlete · American · b. 1976
In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.
Chi McBride
Actor · American · b. 1961
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
Sting
Musician · British · b. 1951
I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
Rodney Dangerfield
Comedian · American · 1921 – 2004
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
Radha Mitchell
Actress · Australian · b. 1973
I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.
Bill Mumy
Actor · American · b. 1954
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton
Musician · Irish · b. 1960
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
Randy Harrison
Actor · American · b. 1977
Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.
Thomas Keller
Celebrity · American · b. 1955
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith
Musician · American · 1907 – 1986
You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.
Steve Nash
Athlete · Canadian · b. 1974
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
Nancy McKeon
Actress · American · b. 1966
I always got great respect as a bass player.
Bill Wyman
Musician · British · b. 1936
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.
Tipper Gore
Celebrity · American · b. 1948
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
Randy West
Entertainer · American
I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
Sugar Ray Leonard
Athlete · American · b. 1956
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
James Brown
Musician · American · 1920 – 2006
I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.
Ruben Blades
Musician · b. 1948
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris
Actor · American · b. 1973
We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
Christopher Meloni
I respect people and expect that kind of respect back.
Dennis Franz
Actor · American · b. 1944
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges
Actor · American · b. 1941
The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.
Sparky Anderson
Coach · American · 1934 – 2010