Quotes About Idolization

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

I don't need to worry about being idolised.

You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don't get a lot of gigs to go to, so when they get to see their favorite artist they take full advantage of it. Obviously the excitement builds up too much for some on the night and they get a bit... crazy.

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

Many find ourselves in this strange consumerist entertainment bubble where celebrities have become the golden cows of our time that we love to worship and destroy.

Our governments have taught us that we should worship only two people - one is 'chacha' and the other 'bapu.'

There's two extremes in male sport: there's complete and total worship of them, or complete and utter contempt. Those extremes create huge problems at either end. And it creates distance, too, and leads them into a bubble.

OK, I will never say anything degrading or bad about Tom Brady. He is a god in cleats.

I have so many man crushes - 'my brother' Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper - if he's here today, I might get a bit squealish.

I've realized that these people you look up to - watching Aaron Rodgers, watching Tom Brady - they're humans just like I am. They can make mistakes. They're just people.

When I was a kid, I grew up not liking Tom Brady because I was a Peyton Manning fan. And now I'm the biggest Tom Brady fan. So, it's great being able to catch balls from him.

I grew up being absolutely in love with Tom Hanks. I remember, all the kids had Brad Pitt plastered all over their textbooks, and then I had Tom Hanks plastered over mine.

I would want to change my name to Sachin Tendulkar if I could do it. He has tons of records; I am not even close to him. He is called as the 'God,' and who would not want to be a God in this mortal world?

Can you imagine, just talking and chatting with Tony Leung? I got to ask all my fan girl questions.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

There was a time when I wanted to meet Pawan Kalyan sir at least once and have a picture clicked with him. There was a time when I put up banners for him; I've literally torn my shirt watching him on screen.

They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.