Top 242 Idol Quotes

My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she’s been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman… and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because… she probably just had too much energy.

For soccer, it was Diego Maradona, and then another idol for me was Michael Jordan. To see them play and how that they could impact the game was pretty special.

As a kid, I think every kid grew up watching Jordan, that was every kid’s idol… you just wanted to be like Mike.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball – you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it’s like my best days are ahead of me.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and ‘you’re my kid’s idol.’

I definitely love ‘Camelot.’ It’s my favorite show. I’m a big ‘True Blood’ fan. I love ‘American Idol,’ and I love my girl J-Lo. The rest are my homework shows: ‘Forensic Files,’ ‘Dr. G. Medical Examiner,’ ‘The First 48.’

The ‘American Idol’ and ‘X Factor’ shows, they’re great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don’t get the attention, that don’t have the money to make themselves representable.

I couldn’t write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward’s an idol, but his plays are serious to me. ‘Private Lives’ and ‘Design for Living’ both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.

After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.

I was 15 on the show, and I cried a lot. I was homesick, and was so worried, that I didn’t think of being on ‘American Idol.’ I was so worried that I was going home every week that I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It’s at the point now where it’s old.

One day, I would like to have my own chat show. Oprah is my idol because she uses her platform so responsibly.

I recently met Michael Phelps. He is my absolute idol. I was totally starstruck. I did manage to get a few words out.

I think after coming off of ‘American Idol’… people kind of expect you to just be awesome all the time, and we’re still learning. I had a lot of stage experience, but it was in a 200-seat theater, you know – it wasn’t thousands of people in front of me.

‘American Idol’ is a machine. It’s a machine that’s making a lot of money, that’s selling a lot of product. It’s ‘American Marketing.’

I was a teenage idol, but not the one that the girls would put up on their walls, like Fabian and Frankie Avalon. I was more cerebral, like a Roy Orbison or a Buddy Holly. I was one of the few who could write songs.

We did the original ‘Pop Idol,’ so I don’t think we could go back to do a singing show.

My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It’s not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal’s cool, you know? Not everybody on ‘American Idol’ listens to metal.

To get to work with my idol, Martin Scorsese, has just been lovely – the highlight of my career.

When I was growing up, it was ‘All Eyes On Me’ by Tupac and ‘Doggy Style’ by Snoop Dogg. I’ve met Snoop and he’s the best. They say you shouldn’t meet your idol – that definitely doesn’t apply to him.

At the academy the coaches would show us Arsenal games on TV and my idol was Thierry Henry. He inspired me. That’s why I became an Arsenal fan.

I’d love my kids to get into music, but I want them to understand the commitment involved. I don’t want them to look on ‘American Idol’ as the way to become famous.

My weakness is ‘American Idol.’ My husband thinks it’s ridiculous. But I am so inspired by those young people who are singing their guts out.

When I was a kid, it was Bette Davis. She was my idol. I used to cut school and sit in the back of the theater; of course, I would have snuck in because I couldn’t afford a ticket.

After ‘American Idol,’ I got a lot of ‘stuck up’ rumors that just fueled the never-ending flames of high school drama. Thankfully, my real friends always stood up for me and knew I wasn’t like that.

The Biggest Loser,’ ‘The Voice,’ and ‘American Idol’… they’re giving people opportunities to do what they’ve always dreamed of doing… to me, that’s great reality television.

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

I’d love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she’s my idol.

I wouldn’t compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don’t feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people’s story. I don’t like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

To act alongside a TV idol of mine, Peter Krause, was phenomenal. I watched him in ‘Six Feet Under,’ I watched him on ‘Dirty Sexy Money’ and I’ll carry on watching him, and I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of that world with him.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

People around me called me an idol, so that’s what I was.

Steven Gerrard has always been my idol. He’s a leader. You get excited when he gets on the ball. You know something’s going to happen.

I will give full credit to the ‘Indian Idol’ platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.

I went to a soccer high school, and it was really different to being on ‘Idol.’ So I decided to quit school, and I put all my energy into music, and things started to happen.

My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.

There’s a lot I’ve yet to say about ‘American Idol,’ so I am excited about teaming up with ‘Idol Go Home’ and starting my blog.

I’m proud of everything I achieved with ‘Idol,’ and away from ‘Idol’ also. It’s just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn’t even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She’d won the Olympics in 1976. She was America’s sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I am playing Elvis Presley in ‘Hello Darling.’ The project is really exciting for me because I get to play my idol.

Van Aert is an example to me anyway. When I was still playing football, I watched the races and the cross races. In that world, he was an idol to me.

Most people don’t know I grew up singing country music; that’s what I sang right up until I did ‘Idol.’

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we’re not really a culture geared to anything as humble as ‘learning.’ But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to ‘American Idol.’

My idol was always Tomas Rosicky. He used to be phenomenal. He had such a good eye for an opening and knew where his team-mates were, and he was so quick.

I have no choice but to admit that, for a while, I was a casual viewer of ‘American Idol.’ By ‘casual viewer,’ I mean I watched every episode aired between 2004 and 2007.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

I know I’m not some matinee idol, but I think we’re sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

Despite not looking like a matinee idol, I feel like I have a lot to give. I’ve never had any trouble with women. People are always surprised with the romantic aspect of my movies.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch ‘American Idol’ and video their children’s concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn’t a genre in truth in ‘American Idol.’

I am not inspired by anyone. I don’t have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.

Barack Obama is my American Idol.

I started going to Madame Louise’s, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go – the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

Before I was on ‘Idol,’ I just sat at home and played video games all day long. Now I get to travel and work towards my dream. It’s the best feeling ever.