Quotes About Idolization

When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.

I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

In terms of Ray Liotta, when I was a teenager growing up in Colorado, I didn't have pictures of girls on my wall. I had pictures of Ray Liotta on my wall. Along with Mike Patton, he was one of my heroes.

The biggest mistake people make about me is that they see me as some sort of god-like figure with a big ego. If I see a button, a T-shirt, that says, 'Yngwie is God,' I just look at it as a complimentary way of people telling me they like me. Although it's very flattering, it doesn't change the way I look at myself.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Telugu heroes are made into demi-gods. The fans here are sincere, and even if the film is bad, they will see it and stand by the actors they like.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I believed he had no human weaknesses or faults, and that, therefore, he could make no mistakes and that he could do no wrong. There on a Holy World hilltop, I realized how very dangerous it is for people to hold any human being in such esteem, especially to consider anyone some sort of divinely guided and protected person.

Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, "There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.

In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity.

The whole world is a personality cult.

I would try to be a striker even though I wasn't and once I started growing up and seeing professional football was a step closer I would look at Sergio Ramos. I always looked up to Ramos as an example and watched him a lot.

I was a huge Rick Astley and Bananarama fan.

I'm a big fan of my father.

I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.

Amitabh Bachchan is my favourite actor.

I'm probably one of the biggest Drake fans you could ever find.