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Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he’s an incredibly great actor.
‘Straight Outta Compton’ is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I’m feeling good about it.
I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
When you’re 10, 11, 12, and you’re watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.
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.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol.
Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he’s an incredibly great actor.
I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.
My TV comedy idols are the Charles brothers, who did ‘Cheers;’ Larry Gelbart, who did ‘MASH;’ and Larry David, who did ‘Seinfeld.’ When I was 6 or 7-years-old, I’d watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ and guys like John Belushi and Dan Akroyd became my on-screen heroes.
I’ve been very lucky. I’ve written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.
Listen to the works of your idols, not your teachers.
As musicians, we are quite literally singing for our supper. Don’t get me wrong, I love touring, but the reality is that our idols from the ’70s and ’80s never toured this hard. They’d do a record, have one big world tour, maybe two, then break to do another record.
Howard Stern is one of my idols.
You’re trying to write for your idols. It’s strange.
I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She’s one of my idols, also.
When I was growing up, I wanted to dress like a lot of my idols, but I simply couldn’t afford it, or my mother would say, ‘Too much make-up’ or ‘It’s too old for you.’ So all I’ve ever worried about is that my fans could relate to me, and as a teenager with the same tastes and interests.
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.
I watched Romario when I was young, and he was one of my idols.
‘Straight Outta Compton’ is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I’m feeling good about it.
Growing up, Karuna Shinsho on CNN was one of my idols, so I wanted to become either an anchorwoman or an international lawyer.
You can only learn from the best players out there, the best people, best idols, role models, whatever you want to call them.
We don’t need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.
The toppling of idols – even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols – is always the road to liberation.
I had a lot of idols like Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, and Xabi Alonso – all of them. I really looked up to them.
I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my fashion idols. Everything she creates is really fresh.
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.
Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray’s studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn’t charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.
Code writers, they are my idols.
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
Every young player is hungry to play and to win titles as they have seen their idols do it.
Every one of us is, even from his mother’s womb, a master craftsman of idols.
Ronaldinho – he was one of my idols.
Every year, I feel really sad when I see Ganesha idols lying here and there after the visarjan. So it is my request to everyone to bring home eco-friendly idols.
My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.
Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.
My idols are not in tennis.
We don’t need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.
I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents are making such a change in the world right now. The more open-minded these kids are being raised, the more hope I have for the future.
I don’t have any idols, any heroes, nothing, no.
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.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
It’s good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.
When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that ‘You don’t want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.’ To this day, that’s the best piece of advice I’ve ever gotten.
I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.
I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
When you’re 10, 11, 12, and you’re watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.
I have met so many of my idols – like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer – all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, ‘Hey man, I’m busy,’ it would have crushed my soul.
I can put all the idols on my bed and sleep, I’m so fond of them.
I understand it when the fans are looking at me. The Beatles, and John in particular, are their musical idols. You can’t touch John, but you want to know more about him, and you want to know from a person who was close to him.
I think I would fan over Beyonce or Adele. Those are my two girl idols, definitely.
I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.
At age 12, or even eight or nine, athletes were my role models. So when I would say I wanted to be the best, it was just because I was seeing my idols and wanted to do that. I don’t think it necessarily was the most realistic thought process.
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn’t Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture’s deification of its idols.
I couldn’t sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I’m not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn’t play it – Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It’s like having a partner with you.
When I was younger my idols were Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit.
I’ll never be on the level of my idols.
The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don’t accept that you need to be compartmentalised.
God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there’s no gloss on what they do.
Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.
