Quotes About Admiration

I try to reach out to my idols.

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.

Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

It's true that when I started out, I was more a fan of attacking players and one in particular: the Brazilian Ronaldo, Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. Another of my idols was Claudio Caniggia, an Argentinian forward with long hair, who I liked a lot. It's because of him that I started to grow my hair long!

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

Ronaldinho - he was one of my idols.

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.

That's one of my idols, I really look up to Pacquiao. This guy is everything I would want to be.

You're trying to write for your idols. It's strange.

Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.

I've already played against some of my biggest idols.

Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.

All my idols have been in the studio with me, because they wanted to be there.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

My idols are not in tennis.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing.

If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.

I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.