Sean Penn, for his acting as well as his writing and directing. There are so many actors I respect, but his reach is so wide.
It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.
First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.
In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.
I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.
The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.
People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
