Quotes About Idolization

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.

I think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

Why doesn't Tacy like boys?' asked Alice. 'But I do like them,' protested Tacy. 'I just don't think they are little tin gods.

From college professors and authors and judges and ministers! Everybody! Dirt farmers and international names!...I don't know what she does to them all - but she does something. She's not a movie star to them - she's a goddess.

The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.

W]e [also] create a … problem when we put people on a pedestal … . Whenever we make anyone – a minister, a teacher, an athlete, a genius, our ancestors, the Buddha – bigger than life, it's easy … to forget that the person you're discussing is a human being. … You'll forget that you're made of the very same stuff they are.

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.

I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

I don't have no... I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boys.

Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

I love Rihanna. She's such a beauty!

I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.

I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.

There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

Nahmir is just an idiot. He just glorifies street life. He idolizes it.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and 'you're my kid's idol.'

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

Barack Obama is my American Idol.

Umm, if I could nose anybody... I guess over there it would be Ricky Gervais. He's a hero of mine. I consider him an idol, I love everything he does. So to be able to place my nose on such a Brit legend, that would be my pick.

I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?

My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.