Top 165 Icon Quotes

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she’s still beautiful.

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater – at the risk of sounding pretentious – as an icon by which we measure society… My life has been in the theater to an extent. It’s only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

Trump is an icon. He is a part of American history. He is every bit the icon as anyone I paint.

It’s a big responsibility to play an icon like Sunil Gavaskar.

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

I’m the ‘Showstoppa’, the Main Event, the icon!

For just being a black artist in rock n’ roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music. And just be different. Just a different breed. And that’s what I love about Jimi Hendrix’s music – the way he plays the guitar is so different. He’s just an icon all around.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

I don’t know if I’m a gay icon or not, but with ‘A Taste of Honey,’ the audience were so touched by the whole story that it certainly helped matters. The characters were so sympathetic that it was as if you had met them.

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn’t very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that’s become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he’s an icon to both sides.

The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.

I’ve got my fair share of appreciation, and I’ve definitely grown as an actor, but I never expected to be an icon.

I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn’t John Wooden. It’s incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

I had the pleasure of getting to know David Beckham, an icon of football and beyond that. He’s a great person, but I had no idea he was such a shy guy. Sometimes when you speak to him he blushes. It’s very strange, he’s famous around the world but in private he is very shy.

‘A great British icon’ is not the phrase I’d use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it’s a phrase that gets attached to anyone who’s been around long enough to become overfamiliar.

The idea of me being an icon or something is a very funny thing, just because of my own weird insecurities. But, yeah… probably because I toiled away being nothing for so long.

It’s just such an honour to be spoken about by Steven Gerrard in such a way, that I might also become such a great player for Liverpool. He is an icon, one of my personal football heroes.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

Carrie Fisher will always be an icon as Leia, but also as Carrie. She will live on forever.

I am not an icon.

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven’t seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross ’cause she’s an icon. I’m salivating to do that.

Sachin Tendulkar is undoubtedly India’s biggest national icon. Being the object of a billion people’s adoration is a tough job.

I think it’s just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it’s really about personality and people’s hearts and souls. That’s what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.

I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.

I’m not an icon. Not even in America.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

It’s never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

I’ve met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn’t have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn’t watch TV. I wasn’t exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his.

If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don’t upset people, but you have to find your own way.

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up… or bury! And when people say, ‘Oh, he’s an icon,’ well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don’t call me a national treasure.

Rooney has to remember he is an icon and an example to youth.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

We’ve never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she’s an icon and she’s been one of my main mentors in this business.

To be an icon… I guess that’s a privilege.

Rukmini Devi was an icon for all the Bharat Natyam students at Kalakshetra. I grew up watching her at dance school and I associate her style with grace and humility – it’s never the clothes, it’s the persona.

I am proud of the fact that people consider me a style icon.

When you talk about Beckham, he’s a massive world icon.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

Everywhere, across continents, Gandhiji is mentioned, cherished and remembered as an icon for all humanity. He is the embodiment of India.

I try to have a fashion sense as far as looking and being fresh in my space. I guess that gets received well sometimes but I never look at myself as a ‘fashionista’ or ‘style icon.’

I really, really like Nicole Richie, and the only reason why I always bring her up is because I’m impressed with her style evolution. This is someone that came onto the scene that people didn’t necessarily view as a style icon, and she completely switched up the game. And I like how she takes risks with fashion.

One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me ‘icon,’ I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover – but while I’m doing it, there is going to be an idea there.

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

I want to be a champion, and win races as much as I can and elevate my platforms and become an icon in the sport. It’s going to take a lot of hard work and determination from my camp and for myself to get to where we need to be. I’m excited about the journey.

When life partner happens, I hope he is not a youth icon then because I doubt even I would be youthful then. Whether life partner is hot or not, that doesn’t matter. He has to be a nice man. He should be funny, responsible, and he should be sweet, and he should love me a lot.

I grew up with Madonna as my icon and she was someone who didn’t conform to any rules.

When the BSP comes to power, modern hospitals and community centers will be constructed especially in the name of Parshuram – considered the symbol and pride of the Brahmin community- as well as an icon of other religions and castes.

One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at the home screen, there’s the Slack icon. You know when you tap this one, it’s all the people you work with, and it’s only the people you work with. And that’s a big advantage.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I’m slightly concerned, because as a centre-half who took a lot of knocks to the head I’m not normally synonymous with being a fashion icon.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It’s something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn’t have to be in the arts exactly. I’m not really sure. But I don’t think you are born an icon.

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

In order to be an icon, you need to be bold. How do I define boldness? Stepping outside of your comfort zone.

I’d rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn’t be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting ‘character.’