Respect Quotes

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.
– Steven Levitan
I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
– Ed Koch
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
– James Cameron
I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.
– Lisa Kudrow
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.
– Christine Lahti
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
– Mike Huckabee
I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
– Adam Yauch
I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.
– Tim Curry
I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.
– Ashley Tisdale
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
– Penelope Cruz
I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.
– Kenny Chesney
I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
– Roger Federer
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
– Kenneth Robert Livingstone
I understand the Second Amendment. I respect the Second Amendment. I think we need to use common sense tools to keep the American people safe, to keep our streets safe.
– Eric Holder
I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot.
– Michel Hazanavicius
I truly respect the people who are working. If they want an autograph from Patti LaBelle, they are going to get it. I have never separated myself from them. I never think you are better than the next one.
– Patti LaBelle
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
– E. O. Wilson
I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.
– Dick Cheney
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
– John Major
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
– Neil Gaiman
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
– Carlos Ghosn
I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.
– Bob McDonnell
I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA.
– Marc Garneau
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
– Ed O'Brien
I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true.
– Carly Fiorina
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
– Michael Gove
I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.
– Jason Aldean
I think it's great that she's not perfect and wasn't perfect. I think that's maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.
– Catherine Bell
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
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
– Curt Schilling
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
– Tupac Shakur
I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.
– Newt Gingrich
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones.
– Kathleen Turner
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
– Seth Grahame-Smith
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
– Erykah Badu
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.
– Brendan Fraser
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
– Thomas Jane
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
– Kate Smith
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
– Joni Mitchell
I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
– Ron Silver
I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.
– Nia Long
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
– Andrew Cuomo
I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I respect the office of the president.
– Jan Brewer
I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
– Rafael Palmeiro
I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.
– Roone Arledge
I respect someone's right to privacy and I want them to know it.
– Terry Gross
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
– Charles Schumer
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
I respect music, I do. I love it.
– Youssou N'Dour
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
– Mary Ellen Mark
I respect Everest very much.
– Anatoli Boukreev
I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
– Dan Rather
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.
– Carrie Underwood
I respect a woman too much to marry her.
– Sylvester Stallone
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
– Mary Wesley
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
– Britney Spears
I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
– Shirley Manson
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.
– Julie Taymor
I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?
– Busta Rhymes
I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.
– Christina Aguilera
I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.
– Ryne Sandberg
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
– Jim Carrey
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
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.
– Amy Tan
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
– Rashida Jones
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
– Taylor Swift
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
– Waylon Jennings
I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one, respect, and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.
– Summer Altice
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.
– Sharon Stone
I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.
– Shia LaBeouf
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
– Roland Joffe
I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
– Christiane Amanpour
I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.
– Maurice Strong
I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.
– Christie Hefner
I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.
– Vinny Guadagnino
I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.
– Sienna Miller
I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.
– Jerry Rice
I just play the music that I love with musicians that I respect, and fortunately, I'm in a position where people are willing to play with me, and perhaps I can do something to help them.
– Bonnie Raitt
I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.
– Thomas Jane
I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.
– Scott Caan
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
– Queen Elizabeth II
I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
– Frank Robinson
I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
– Sally Field
I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.
– Christina Hendricks
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
– Walter Annenberg
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
– Hayden Christensen
I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.
– Michael Ealy
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
– Kyra Sedgwick
I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
– Bob Ney
I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
– Duane Chapman
I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.
– Harry Shum, Jr.
I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
– Mario Monti
I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
– Joan Collins
I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.
– Karl Malone
I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.
– Puff Daddy
I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
– Everett Dirksen