Quotes About Idolization

In the '70s, Leo-mania was the equivalent of Beatle-mania down there and they still love me. In Australia they still want heroes.

Everybody loves me.

I model myself on Christie Rampone and look up to her. Obviously, achieving what she's achieved would be magnificent. I'd really like to meet her just once.

Some of the mail I've had has been weird. When I played Guy of Gisborne, a woman crocheted a mini-version of me.

I would call celebrity worship a new form of religious culture, fans may not even know the fallen celebrit[ies], yet they draw quite a bit of meaning from them." - Gary Laderman, a professor of religion at Emory University

Ultimately, our obsession with celebrities isn't about them; it's about us and our needs. Many of us look at these people—who have glamour, beauty, wealth, and youth—and familiarize ourselves with them until they begin to feel like real people in our lives. We discuss them at work, in the park, and over dinner. We develop feelings for them. We love them, or hate them, or pity them, or profess not to care but secretly do.

He was beautiful - like a god, the poets would say.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

That men worshipped him like a god, but no one mourned.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

If she would give the world what it wanted, it would deify her.

I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.

I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.

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

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

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Only when those fathers were not on the premises could they be elevated and deified.

How come no one idolizes or praises the missionaries who give up everything and live in poverty, endangering their lives and their families with every danger that the American dream has almost completely eliminated? How come no one lifts up and exalts the ghetto and prison ministers and preachers? Because we are taught early on 1) that comfort is our goal and security and 2) that we should always seek for a lot of people to like us.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

He once told me he didn't like to meet people he admired because they invariably disappointed in person.