Idol Quotes

I never really had an idol.

I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

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.

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.

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

For the past two years,the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

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

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us.

'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Every girl creates a dream in her mind; everyone needs an idol.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol,' but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.

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.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

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

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

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