Idol Quotes

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

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.

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.