Quotes About Idolization

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

I'm a big Sarah Michelle Gellar [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] fan. Huge. I love her. She's gorgeous. I see her Maybelline ads, and I'm like, 'How can she be that pretty?'

Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

Celebrity is intoxicating.

I wanted to grow up to be George and Ira Gershwin from the age of about six.

If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I've watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.

From, like, two, three years old, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson and just wanted to be on stage with him. And my mum put me in dance classes, but I had a lot of social anxiety and didn't want to be around people; I didn't like to look at anyone in the eye, so that was a difficult thing to get over.

Everybody wanted to be Michael Jackson. That's how Will and I got to know each other.

Of the members of the band, I'm the biggest Michael Jackson fan.

I don't think it would be possible for me to respect people like Ridley Scott or James Cameron more than I already do. They're gods of filmmaking.

If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

I looooove Jason Isbell.

I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.

Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

I love Johnny Depp.

Figo was my hero. Then he joined Madrid. Barca fans hated him for that. It was impossible for him to be a hero any more, but now that I'm a professional, I see things differently.

I joined Spandau Ballet not because I wanted to be the best musician in the world, but because I wanted to be Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando.

What role models do kids have nowadays?Some ridiculously overpaid footballer prone to childish tantrums?The morons in the Big Brother house,perhaps? Or maybe the various gun-toting rappers who regularly delight us with their expletive-ridden vocabulary and eccentric attitude to women?

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve

I loved him in the way young people are mad for those they wish to resemble.

I was a taskmaster: hyperdirect and critical without finesse. I'd practically yell at people when frustrated and thought that was acceptable because that's what my idols did - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg.