Quotes About Idolization

We have a tendency in this country to fall in love with noted personalities, like the drunks who throw their arms around a stranger's neck, only to push him away again after a while, for equally obscure reasons.

A man looks at a "sex goddess" and lusts. A man looks at a feminine woman and worships.

Girls were always attracted to middle-aged men with interesting pasts.' The relationship is all about hero-worship on one side, youth-worship on the other

What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes? p. 6, Double Duce

The great mob of mankind are the admirers and worshippers, and, what may seem more extraordinary, most frequently the disinterested admirers and worshippers, of wealth and greatness.

My brother, the golden boy. It's been this way all our lives. No matter what Matteo does, he is revered.

The difference between me and them, they constantly look up to each other; I look up to legends. -MillYentei

An interesting note to this is, how a movie star projected onto the big screen is instantly adored and revered. This phenomenon works in reverse. Those who are held in high esteem are given gigantic proportions. Those who are given gigantic proportions are held in high esteem.

The guys of Savino's generation liked what they saw in the movies and wanted to be that. So Lou ain't trying to be Lefty Ruggiero, he's trying to be Al Pacino being Lefty Ruggiero. He ain't trying to be Tommy DeSimone, he's going for Joe Pesci being Tommy DeSimone, not being Jake Amari but James Gandolfini.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

And after, when it was bedtime, I would sing, "We love you, Conrad, oh yes we do. We love you, Conrad, and we'll be true" into the bathroom mirror with a mouthful of toothpaste. I would sing my eight-nine-ten-year-old heart out. But I wasn't singing to Conrad Birdie. I was singing to my Conrad. Conrad Beck Fisher, the boy of my preteen dreams.

It took me a long time to figure it out. That I was the one who had put my dad on that pedestal. I did that, not him. And then I despised him for not being perfect. For being human.

Tardé mucho tiempo en comprenderlo. Fui yo el que puso a mi padre en ese pedestal. Lo hice yo, no él. Y luego lo desprecié por no ser perfecto. Por ser humano.

When I was in my early twenties, it seemed like everyone I knew – every male, I should say – read Bukowski. These men of my acquaintance listened to the Go-Betweens, drank Guinness from a straight glass and loved Bukowski like little girls love ponies.

When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.

I have always been a big fan of Salman... whenever I see him or meet him, I choke.

I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

My celebrity crush is Princess Jasmine.

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

A lot of times you idolize somebody from a distance and you get to meet them and you think, 'Eyuck. I wish I had never met you people.'

I like people who are devoted to me: men who know I'm the most fabulous thing in the world, and they just look at me with adoration. That's how my dad looked at my mom, and that's how I expected to be looked at.

'Choli Ke Peeche' and 'Ek Doh Teen' were my favourite numbers as a kid. I was a huge fan of Madhuri Dixit and would spend hours looking into the mirror and aping her expressions, believing that the mirror was the camera!