Quotes About Idolization

There are a lot of people who are very willing to put my mother on a pedestal, which is a lonely existence. She wants to dispute that so much that she will literally do anything for anybody.

As a kid, you put musicians on a pedestal - well, I did. The more you meet bands, and the more you hang around them, you can have normal conversations.

Everybody has those certain fighters they follow and that they really put on a high pedestal. They want to give the most shine that they possibly can. They look for any reason to break down a fighter's performance to when it isn't their favorite fighter in any positive thought.

We come from that school where we don't believe we're different from you, and it's insulting to me on some kind of weird level that musicians are put on a pedestal.

People treat us and they put us on this pedestal like we're so much better human beings than them because we play a professional sport.

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

I had never fought a guy before that I had put on a pedestal the way I did with Carlos Condit. I've got his walkout shirt. He's a former champion. I'm a huge fan. I doubted myself a lot of times.

'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her.

We have such a weird celebrity culture in our country where we elevate talented, successful, or beautiful people to a level of perceived greater value.

I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

I love everything Katy Perry does.

I love Katy Perry.

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

I'd read through the whole thing twice, and I used to go on and on: Marcel, the spectacular writer, my idol, and so forth. I used to blather endlessly about why I adored him, how he, the desperate socialite and party hopper, the inveterate pleaser, was actually the outsider par excellence, how he could be amid all the people he'd always dreamed of befriending yet remain alone in the universe, the loneliest speck of all.

Man, just to think back, like, I was one of the craziest D. Wade fans ever.

Robert Wagner was my greatest crush.

I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

I'm in love and publicly obsessed with Jenn Colella. The reason I do everything is Jenn. I took a master class with her when I was super young. I will never forget when she walked into the room. She is amazing.

What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

I can't put anyone even really close to Christina Aguilera besides Stacie Orrico.

I just want Emma Thompson to be my best friend.