Quotes About Idolization

If a mass movement turns into worshipping a particular person, that's a great problem.

I love Rihanna.

The same fans that want to rip you up are the same fans that want to talk you up and want your autograph.

Neymar is my only role model.

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.

I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Growing up in L.A., every kid wants to play for the Lakers. As a kid I went to their championship parades, bought a Kobe jersey - I went to the gym and made everybody call me Kobe - loved Shaq, loved the three-peat.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

Playing in Milan for me meant being able to play alongside players who were idols to me as a kid. Playing alongside David Beckham - his long passes are perfect for me.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Peyton Manning's been my guy since the sixth grade. My cousin bought me a Tennessee Volunteers No. 16 jersey. He's been my guy since then.

Eli Wallach is my very own Sexiest Man Alive!

Barbara Feldon on 'Get Smart,' I wanted to be her.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

Even individuals we admire can have skeletons in their closet.

I definitely had a Paul Rudd crush. He's great.

In my early years, I wanted to be like Paul Gascoigne.

I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

I kind of put people from the past up on a pedestal; I don't think, in a lot of ways, that we're at their level.

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.