Quotes About Icon

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe.

I've had a passion to play Marilyn Monroe for a really long time.

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe.

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

The Beatles never got through to all ages, nor did Elvis Presley, or any of the other monuments of mediocrity that we've had.

There is only going to be one Kate Moss. Kate is an icon.

I'm the male Kate Moss.

Halle Berry is and will always be one of the most beautiful women in the world.

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

After all, there's no shape or image in modern culture to match that of the gun. Nothing else has its universal authority or saving promise

Honey, I've been to Graceland. It's, you know, smaller than you think. It's really garish, but it's not worth driving that far to see it. I mean . . . he's no Jackson Browne.

You're not really famous until youre a Pez dispenser.

Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.

Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and I'm happy with people using it; it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.

When Mike Tyson was only 18, his managers used to market him on posters, reminding you that if your grandfather had missed Joe Louis, or your father Muhammad Ali, don't you miss Tyson.

Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.