The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I’ve always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

When I first played ‘1234’ it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it’s ridiculous to say that now, but...

I’m glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook what I felt like cooking. And you could eat it or...

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

I’m a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn’t a spiritual connection.

When I was trying to find work after drama school in London, it felt like the same actors always got the plum roles, especially in television. We have a smaller market place, vastly fewer drama-producing...

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

I have always felt like a loved, valued and equal member of my family.

I always felt that church is where I’m going to find my community and people to live my life with.

I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

I don’t know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn’t until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence...

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to...

I felt caged by my childhood.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

You can’t be a proper comic unless you’ve been out on stage and felt the fear.

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim – it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

I felt my father’s presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

I’ve always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in...

You know that thing when you’re not asleep but you’re not awake, and you can’t move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my...

And I’ve always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you’re just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I’d be a trial lawyer myself.