Idols Quotes

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

My idols are all older.

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I try to reach out to my idols.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

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

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.