My dad had a huge influence. He’s my idol, and I’m following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.
Winning ‘American Idol’ gives the opportunity to really help make a change to a lot of lives, and making a difference has given me the greatest satisfaction and joy.
I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.
Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She’s a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She’s just been able to balance it all – and gracefully, as well.
I’m not afraid of you, ‘American Idol.’
Looking at robots is not like looking at an idol. It’s not a human being, so it’s more like a mirror – the energy people send to the stage bounces back and everybody has a good time together rather than focusing on us.
I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of ‘American Idol.’ So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.
I like ‘American Idol’ because it’s an actual talent contest.
I’ve been watching ‘American Idol’ since I was five years old.
There was a perception that reality-show people are just mere personalities, that they don’t have real talent, and I worked real hard to change peoples’ minds, one show at a time, and proved a lot of people wrong. I’m proud I was the first to do that for ‘Idol’ on Broadway!
During ‘Idol,’ I wasn’t expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.
I don’t think there’s a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I’ll be happy to deal with it.
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I’m not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols – money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol – you become like what you worship. That’s one of the basic spiritual laws.
My footballing idol is Zinedine Zidane; he was an amazing guy on and off the field.
I watch ‘The Voice’ and ‘American Idol,’ and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It’s so exciting at my house.
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, ‘God, I wish I hadn’t eaten.’
I may worship the image of the Lord; but that act is worthless if it is not accompanied with devotion. In the absence of devotion, the idol will just be a piece of stone, and so shall I; and the worship will only mean that a stone is facing a stone!
I’ve got ‘Lost’ and ’24’ on TiVo. And I’m an ‘American Idol’ fan.
Immediately after ‘Idol,’ I was getting pulling in so many different directions… I was just an 18-year-old thinking he’s on top of the world, that kind of thing, and I just kind of fell flat.
A lot of people don’t know that before ‘American Idol,’ before I got this Jonas Brothers wardrobe going on, I grew up with skinheads and punks who fought for a cause and didn’t care about skin color. I was the only little gay.
Martha Stewart’s my idol.
I like the way Billy Idol sings. Mommy turned me on to him.
I learned that sometimes our struggles are a little bit bigger than us and talking about them and coming through and having the courage to get out of them. I learned how many I touched and inspired through the journey of ‘Idol’ because I was just singing on the show. I wasn’t really being an advocate for anything.
What I love about ‘American Idol’ is that it’s broad.
My parents wanted me and my siblings to practice some sports outside school. And since we lived next to a tennis club, we decided to play tennis. I didn’t have an idol, so to speak, but I always enjoyed watching Pete Sampras and Alex Corretja.
If you don’t have any ties to the music industry, you just love ‘American Idol,’ you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.
I started watching videos of Shane Warne sir, and that’s where I realized what leg-spin is. He was my idol, and I wanted to be like him, bowl like him.
Not a lot of people get to meet their role model and idol in life, and I’ve been really lucky that way.
There are a lot of players that I wanted to play with, but I always wanted to play with Ronaldinho. He’s been always my idol, I am a fan of his.
‘American Idol,’ for me, is fizzling out. They can’t package me, man… I’m an artist that’s created this concept but used the ‘American Idol’ machine as a marketing tool.
On a personal level, my mom is my biggest inspiration. She’s always been an idol for me. I used to dream about growing up and being like her.
My first idol was Dick Emery, this man on the telly who was a sexpot one minute, then a vicar with dodgy teeth. Transformation – I think that’s what he represented to me.
The people that go on ‘American Idol’ do want some recognition and fame.
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
It’s so funny to think about it now, but I kind of toned everything down about myself for ‘Idol.’ When it came down to song choices, or hair choices, or stuff like that, producers had the final say. I never got to sing, for instance, a female artist’s song.
My idol is Quincy Jones.
Shevchenko was always the favourite player for me. He was my idol. When we met, we exchanged shirts and talked for a while. It was great.
I instantly took the offer to judge ‘Indian Idol’ because I know the journey from being judged to judging on the same stage is going to be a memorable experience for me.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Yeah… I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what’s happened with ‘Idol,’ it has got me past so much of that.
I guess I never took my fame as a teen idol too seriously.
It’s hard to feel like a teen idol.
I always knew I wanted to be involved in entertainment in some way. But I really can’t say I’d be where I am now if I hadn’t been on ‘American Idol.’
With ‘Idol’ it’s kind of just like ‘OK, here’s this competition – I need to do better than somebody else.’
My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.
I don’t think rap really fits in to ‘American Idol’ in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.
I’ve been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don’t think I’m in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there’s honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn’t easy. And I’m no matinee idol.
George Best was my idol. I got a chance to meet him once.
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Growing up in L.A., Kobe was my idol, really.
Oh, I’m very grateful for ‘American Idol’ and I always will be.
At one time in my life, I stood in queues for ‘Indian Idol’ auditions, and I got eliminated at Top 8 or Top 9. I could have never imagined that one day I will be judging this show where I was a contestant myself.
My favourite actor in the world is Richard Burton. I just think he just had everything. I probably couldn’t play him, because he’s got this insane quality that’s like a wild animal and still sort of frail, fragile. But he’s my idol.
I had no clue of Hollywood until I became a teenager. Then I got a fake ID in Tijuana and discovered Shelly’s Manne-Hole, on Cahuenga and Selma, where I saw John Coltrane and his piano player, McCoy Tyner, and Elvin Jones, the drummer – my idol.
I get very nervous whenever I think about it. I’ve never done a serious play, and I have such awe of the woman – she’s really my only idol. It’s going to be a big stretch – certain people come out on stage and your face muscles automatically tense and you get ready to smile.
Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
Growing up, John Terry was my obvious idol. I based my whole game on him.
I had one girl tell me last night that I’m the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, ‘You’re my idol. I love you.’ It’s awesome. It’s what it’s all about.
In real life I don’t chant. Nor do I believe in idol worship.
To be given a chance to be in the finals was a dream come true, and I will forever be thankful to the whole ‘American Idol’ crew.
If you watch ‘American Idol,’ and you close your eyes, you don’t know who’s singing because they all sound exactly alike.
