Idols Quotes
The heroes who shaped us.
From performers determined to honor their idols to musicians name-dropping the icons who influenced them, this set of idols quotes captures what it means to look up to someone. It pairs well with our Growing Up quotes page for more on formative influences.
If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent.
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Vince McMahon is one of my all time idols in terms of building a brand and sustaining a great company.
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I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now.
When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.
As a player I had a few idols but that's not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on guys like Marco van Basten but as a coach I want to make my own footsteps.
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
You see all the greats, people who were idols of mine growing up. You see those guys on the cover of video games.
Growing Up Quotes
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I...
Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.
For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
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I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think I've gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.
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Some entries also admit the pressure of trying to live up to a personal hero's image. Explore our Big quotes and Like quotes pages for related reflections.
