Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had ‘Time Out’ on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.
I think a lot of people look to me as a sort of lifestyle icon.
Media is not supporting me. They’re saying that I want to marry Imran Khan, but I’m already married. This is wrong. What about my self-worth? My identity? I am a social media sensation. I am a fashion icon.
I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I’m not Terminator.
This woman who was a style icon basically lived in a little cotton dress all her life – a simple life.
My dad is to professional wrestling what Babe Ruth was to baseball – he’s an icon. Working with him and having him around as I try to get this new character over with the fans has been a major help.
Serena is an icon of women’s sport.
I am not aware I am an icon.
There is beauty everywhere. But if I had to narrow it down, I absolutely adore Beyonce. She’s the ultimate icon for me. I also love Naomi CampbelI, Jourdan Dunn, Joan Smalls, Daria Werbowy, and Genevieve Nnaji.
Brigitte Bardot is an icon, and her look is timeless. She is seen as one of the most beautiful women of all time. I feel very honored to be compared to her.
When I started out on ‘The Biggest Loser,’ for me it was kind of embarrassing to be on national TV and go from this wrestling icon, this Olympic gold medalist, to being on ‘The Biggest Loser.’
The Humvee is an American military icon and will continue to be for decades. It is an essential part of U.S. military operations.
My mother has always been my style icon.
Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came across as the biggest doofus. Literally, I was, like, bowing to him.
Whether it’s as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat – everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
The idea of romantic heroes – When you say the word hero,’ it implies it’s someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton’ about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?
I’m Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
Daria Werbowy is my beauty icon.
I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.
Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.
Audrey Hepburn, for me, was the end-all, be-all style icon.
Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
Rahul Gandhi can’t be a youth icon only if the Congress projects him like that. People have to decide.
I respect Lady Gaga’s work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live, and dancing, too.
Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.
Kim Gordon is my biggest style icon.
It’s always intimidating to meet an icon.
Why is there this myth? People say, ‘Oh, you are a style icon. You’re ‘French, French, French.’ It’s not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.
For Krishna to be such an international icon, so to speak, means there are various perspectives on him. Saints, philosophers and historians have their own take on him. While reading about their perspectives, a story took form in my mind and that’s how ‘Krishna’ happened.
My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.
There’s always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.
I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out.
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.
Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven’t been given a script. I don’t know what the dialogues of an icon are.
I know, being a band that’s mostly gay and has women in it, I just think that there are the male icon bands: they are always – and they deserve it – but they are always touted as, ‘These guys are heavy-duty.’ I think bands, because we have a sense of humor, we are not always taken as seriously.
I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.
Boeing is a United States icon.
I’ve become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don’t like the position.
Eight years ago, if I wanted to do a YouTube video, I broke out my camera and filmed everything myself and learned how to edit and kind of become a one-woman studio. But we’re living in an era now, thanks to ICON, where any creator who is online, they can create in their own space.
I’ve turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor… and now I’m a style guru!
I don’t really know if I am thought of as a style icon. I don’t feel like that at all. Music comes first, but I also just enjoy being creative in whatever I’m doing, be it wearing clothes, making images, or performing.
I don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
I wouldn’t necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?
I’m friends with Kehlani – she’s a LGBTQ icon.
‘Days’ has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it’s still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I’m proud to be a part of it.
The No 10 shirt? Yes, I understand what it means in Brazil. The icon number. Yes, it’s important. It is the number given to a creative player, and I am happy to have that responsibility, but it is not your shirt number that defines you: it is what you do with a football.
While traveling around the world, I’ve had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I’ve learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as ‘normal’ – everybody’s different, and that is the essence of their beauty.
She’s not pretentious at all. I love that about her. I mean, she’s this giant icon, but then she’s just this little bohemian chick in Ugg boots and sweats. Sadly, Cher is only human.
If people are like, ‘Oh, you’re an icon,’ then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall.
The thing is, I’ve always wanted to be a star. I’ve always wanted to be an Elvis Presley or a Tupac – like, a huge icon.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.
I think the ultimate sign of an icon or legend in any sport is the ability to elevate their teammates.
My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.
When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon – my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles – you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?
Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the ‘icon’ of Frida Khalo.
I’m a tomboy and quite clumsy, so I’m more like the anti-sexy icon.
It’s a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
Nobody can replace Dev sahab. He changed the trend of Indian cinema. He was an icon.
David Beckham is a top man. I love the guy and what he can show in terms of style as well. He’s really classy, an icon.
I can’t think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and take music in another direction. That’s a guitar hero for me.
It’s a huge honour to be able to get on stage and jam with an icon.
I always get criticized for my clothing because I like wearing jeans and T-shirts. There’s nothing wrong with dressing sexy. It’s just I don’t want to be anything that I’m not. I’m not here to be a fashion icon. I am here to make songs.
I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It’s quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.
Google Earth has become a little bit of an icon in our society. You get on maps and you wanna see what the quality of the road’s like, you go on Google Maps.
It must be strange for any celebrity to come face to face with an impersonator. When you’re that much of a personal icon and reference point that people impersonate you, it’s gotta be a little weird.
It’s about legacy, it’s about moments, it’s about being an icon – I’ll do what I do and the money will flow.
