Quotes About Idolization

Ask anyone - public adoration is the greatest thing in the world.

I respect Dev saab greatly.

I wanted to be amongst the greats. I wanted to be a Simone Biles, a Michael Phelps, an Ashton Eaton. I wanted to be those guys.

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.

Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...

Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.

Wonder Woman feels like she's been put on a pedestal for so long, and it's hard to write that character because they're perfect and they can't do anything wrong.

To be able to work with my idols is incredible. You learn so much, and they're wonderful as people, too.

When I was in high school, there's no doubt I was trying to swing like Tiger Woods when he first came on tour.

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'

I have no words to express and completely speechless to talk about him. I am a big fan of Vidyut.

I had very little time to mentally prepare before I was just kind of thrust into it. And I'm watching all of these movie stars that I idolized sharing the stage with me. And then I'm having dinner with Angelina Jolie because that's how the seating chart worked over at Marvel - and then trying to reconcile all of this in my brain.

I idolized my parents' marriage. It didn't seem to me like they were having problems. My whole relationship ideal was shattered.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Simply stated, everyone who idolizes also demonizes and in so doing is a hypocrite contributing to the tearing of a social fabric of love, peace, and kindness they purport to be serving.

And now, it seems, they are all here: the handsome masculine ones desired alike by men and women; the gushing swishes, hands aflutter like wings; the few stray women secure among the men who will idolize them but not love them; and as in any group of homosexuals and those lured for whatever reason to them, there is here a mood of superficial good humor, of euphoria bordering on hysteria. So

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

There are many who think that they are marvelous if they can simply resemble a great man in some one thing; and often they seize only on the defect he has.