As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
It wasn’t until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women’s World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.
Prince is one of my biggest idols of all time, and he’s the real King of Pop.
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you’re not very successful and you’re not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn’t yield successful results.
One of my idols is my dad. All his work in Motown, and just the way he conducted himself as a human being was always interesting to me, and it seemed like the successful way, and it is a successful way, and I always wanted to do that. He’s funny, and all that stuff.
I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they’re my idols. That’s Ice and me for sure.
As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn’t get ‘Cabin Fever’ made that fast I thought I’d failed.
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 won because I was the people’s favorite dancer, and that’s what I work with these Idols on. There have been 1,000 singers before you that are as good or better than you, but you’re not trying to be the best singer ever. You’re trying to be the people’s favorite singer.
I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas – well, not favorite but something I’ve always felt grateful for – was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn’t tons of feminist literature floating around.
He was one of my childhood idols, and I hope I can get in the ring with him one day. I’d love to batter The Rock.
The idols of one’s adolescence tend to endure – you never forget how you worshipped them.
I don’t have any idols, I owe it all to hardwork, dedication and competence.
It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn’t get ‘Cabin Fever’ made that fast I thought I’d failed.
My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.
My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that’s what I want for me.
I definitely take influences from my idols David Bowie and Billy Joel. I’ve combined them with the Frankie Grande-isms that I’ve cultivated over singing every night for two shows a week for four years on Broadway.
Every one of us is, even from his mother’s womb, a master craftsman of idols.
Messi and Ronaldinho were the two players who were my idols when I was young.
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.
When artists die early, they become idols even more.
Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.
I’d actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he’s kept himself from being bored.
I’ve got a record titled ‘Idols Become Rivals,’ and it’s basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.
We’re not idols onstage. We’re not the Rolling Stones.
You discover two things when you’re a teenager. One, that your parents are not the idols that you thought they were when you were growing up, if you had nice parents. And two, that you have power over them, and you can upset them and confront them and attack them.
Vince McMahon is one of my all time idols in terms of building a brand and sustaining a great company.
I can’t say I have had a ton of Hollywood exposure, as strange as that sounds. But by pure happenstance, I trailed Javier Bardem on a red carpet at a film festival in Palm Springs years ago. He’s one of my idols, and I endeavor to walk an artistic path similar to his own.
I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn’t seem to fit the mould of my idols.
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.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
