Quotes About Idolization

I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshiped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.

Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

Idolization of oneself is a crime. One is the prisoner of his once blindfolded complacency.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

I am a huge sports fan and could easily reel off a load of sports stars who became idols to me.

In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'

Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.

Listen, I'm a fan, no, I'm a stan of Ariana Grande.

Woman's love -- a mirror in which a man beholds himself glorified, magnified and deified.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

Shakespeare; the only man I'd ever love.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

I'm a huge Neil Flynn fan.

I love Neil Patrick Harris. I've always been a big fan of his - he was my first TV crush.

I worshiped Judd Nelson in 'The Breakfast Club' growing up. I must've seen that movie 100 times.

You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Alcoholic parents are so confusing, they're your parents, so you love them. But they're drunks, so you hate them. But you love them, but you hate them. They have moments when they're still the people you grew up idolizing. They have moments when you can't imagine they were anything but monsters. And then, after a while they're monsters full time. The people they used to be has enormous power over you. But the people they've turned into has no power over you at all.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.