Quotes About Idols

I think Barca and Iniesta were a big part of me growing up, looking at those as role models.

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.

I love Aaliyah, I love Brandy, I love Monica.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

I liked Roy Jones, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ali... those were the guys I was looking at growing up.

When I was a kid, I used to watch all those Sunday afternoon matinees featuring all the Hollywood greats.

One Direction are super cool.

Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs" (Jonah 2:8).

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols, he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then cut their legs from under them, simply to make their fall all the greater.

I'm tired of training,' Danny complained. 'Couldn't we plunder something, such as decadent idols with emerald eyes and a lot of clean, unspoiled village maidens?

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes.'

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

I grew up listening to a lot of Usher at 13 and 14. I have every Usher album that ever existed. So I grew up listening to a lot of Usher, Michael Jackson, Luis Miguel, a lot of pioneers in Latin music.

When I was a kid, all the walls in my room were papered with posters portraying Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I think working with Van Damme was a great experiment. It was awesome!

As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

Lenny Kravitz is someone I wanna work with. But Prince for sure. He's someone I've loved ever since I was in High School.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

If you want to make idols accessible - which I think Shakespeare should be - then you have to bring a human touch, make it self-effacing and warm.