Quotes About Idolization

I wanted to be part of Jordan Brand, because I saw Randy Moss, my favorite receiver, wearing Jordans when I was younger. I wanted to do everything like Randy.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

I was actually a big Owen Hart fan, but I wasn't a Bret Hart fan at all growing up.

I love and adore Salman Khan. Every year I see him on Bigg Boss' and I just freeze. I'm head over heels with his eyes and smile. He is a very charming personality.

Thierry Henry is Thierry Henry. I still have everything to prove. By continuing to work, I will try to reach his level, but I am still very far off.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

You should never meet your heroes.

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes.

Around sixth or seventh grade, I fell in love with Tim Duncan and his all-around game. That's when I started watching him. Then my father introduced me to Hakeem Olajuwon. Those were the two guys I modeled my game after.

I have somebody I admire and want to keep at a distance. I've had the opportunity to meet her a couple of times - it's Chrissie Hynde from The Pretenders. I just am nuts about her, but I have no interest in meeting her because I just don't think she could live up to what she's been to me in my head.

Growing up with four older brothers, we were into everything! They started snowboarding when I was just a tiny button, and I loved watching them shredding in the backyard. After seeing them compete in a few contests, it was all over. I idolized the sport from day one.

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

I'll be Spider-Man. I'm just kidding, I love Tom Holland.

The problem with making heroes out of humans is that when they eventually act like humans, everyone is disappointed.

Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never read their works. They cannot do anything more than just gape. The intelligent amongst them are moved by the wish to see the objects which the great man habitually had before his eyes; and by a strange illusion, these produce the mistaken notion that with the objects they are bring back the man himself.

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Plums deify.

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.