Quotes About Idolization

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

Of the three of us, I alone was allowed to enter Amma's bedroom and watch her get dressed for special occasions. It was an experience I considered almost religious, for, even though I adored the goddesses of the local cinema, Amma was the final statement in female beauty for me.

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

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I didn't read much as a kid. Strangely enough, when I first met my dad, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, I didn't know he was my dad and I fell in love with him. I put his poster on my wall.

If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.

Another thing I recall was falling in love with Shirley Temple when I was nine or ten.

I think everyone has a girl crush on Rihanna. Who else? Charlize Theron, she's hot. Scarlett Johansson, I just love all those bombshells!

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!

I'm such a fan of Idina Menzel! I think she's made a wonderful career in this business. I love her so much, and any role she's played, I'd love to be able to follow in her footsteps.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily

Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily.

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I've met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet - I just shut up and bow down.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

I used to ask my mom to try and shave my head on the sides to give me a receding hairline because Adam Ant had one.

As a kid, I wore the same Oakland A's hat for like six or seven years. It was faded white and green. It was because I loved Barry Zito and he had signed that hat.

When TLC came out with 'Ain't 2 Proud To Beg,' I wasn't signed yet and I wanted to be like TLC so bad.

I hated Hogan growing up because he was just too white meat for me. He was just a guy in a ripped shirt, and a bandana, and a silly moustache in my mind.

I follow Ronda. I am big fan of her. She is simply the best for me.