Top 100 Quotes About Idol
#1. If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.
Charles Spurgeon
#2. It was a dream come true working with Johnny Depp. He's always been my acting idol. Working with him and watching him work taught me a lot as an actor. He's very down to earth and a lot of fun to hang out with.
Mason Cook
#3. '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.
Corey Clark
#4. Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
Andre Leon Talley
#5. Viktor Petrenko and I met at a competition, where I beat him completely accidentally. I felt so embarrassed in front of my idol.
Evgeni Plushenko
#6. The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.
Karl Popper
#7. I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
Chin Han
#8. An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.
Nancy Pearcey
#9. American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.
Luke Bryan
#10. American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
Diane Sawyer
#11. On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single is 'Tonight' so I can show off my fun, young side, and what I want to do as an artist.
Jessica Sanchez
#12. We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.
John Ortberg
#13. If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?
Ruzwana Bashir
#14. You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
Stella Benson
#15. There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto music. Elvis Presley, whom they idol, is merely a karaoke makeover of James Brown and Chuck Berry.
Ishmael Reed
#16. Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
Barbra Streisand
#17. 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.'
Bo Bice
#18. 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.
Josh Hartnett
#19. Will Smith. He's been my career idol for years and years. I used to sit back and watch and study 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' over and over. It's the only TV show that I've watched all the way through maybe five times.
Jessie Usher
#20. Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.
Mel Lawrenz
#21. Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
Candice Glover
#23. The fact that an Englishman has an Argentinian as an idol is very rare. I keep watching my [title-winning] goal against QPR and every time I get more emotional. My plan is to stay here because I'm convinced Manchester City will be at the same level as Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Sergio Aguero
#24. Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
Warren Zevon
#25. The triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
Plato
#26. If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately.
Grimes
#27. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.
A.W. Tozer
#28. Dex has always had an aura of cool about him but right now he could be just about any dork drooling over his idol. What a twatwaffle.
Karina Halle
#29. Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk to Ali, to get advice from Muhammad Ali, was privileged. He's always given me time to ask questions, although I was so in awe that I didn't ask questions.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#30. To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.
Ivan Illich
#31. I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'
Tyra Banks
#33. When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.
Rob Lowe
#34. I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
Tim Howard
#35. My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
Don Knotts
#36. I thought of my sweet little girl and her chubby cheeks, big brown eyes and long brown hair with bangs that constantly needed trimming. She was all that really mattered in this world, and I could not keep moping over some guy who came in and out of my life faster than a season of American Idol.
Kate Madison
#37. My definition of an American Idol is someone who is a great talent and who communicates well with the audience
Blake Lewis
#38. 'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
Crystal Bowersox
#39. 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.
Nigel Lythgoe
#40. I've never believed that 'Idol' as a franchise is beholden to any individual because everybody said it would die the minute Simon Cowell left, and it hasn't.
Nigel Lythgoe
#41. A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.
R.C. Sproul
#42. 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.
Magic Johnson
#43. The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
Voltaire
#44. These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
Barry Manilow
#45. My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.
Tyson Fury
#46. I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
Fantasia Barrino
#48. As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.
Devin Kelley
#49. I want to take Ryan Seacrest's job. I want his job on 'American Idol.'
David Mazouz
#50. Richard Russell adored his wife. After they had been married for almost forty years, he sent her a note saying, With a sense of love and gratitude that is overpowering, I can only say God bless you, idol of my heart.
Robert A. Caro
#52. What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.
Hugh Panaro
#53. I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.
David Cook
#54. We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.
Blaise Pascal
#55. Yahweh - a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to it. Such a god in the Orient would be regarded as a deluding idol.
Joseph Campbell
#56. I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.
Nicki Minaj
#57. You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
William G. Boykin
#58. A lot of people who wanted to audition for 'Idol' have asked me: "What should I do?" or "How to I prepare myself?" I always told them: "Just go in and believe in yourself."
Jessica Sanchez
#59. That's the truth with any idol - it will rock you to your core when it leaves. When a good thing leaves you, it might make you sad. But when an ultimate thing leaves you, you feel like you can't live anymore.
Jefferson Bethke
#60. Oh, gosh, first of all, Paula Deen is my idol. I adore that woman. I got to be on her show a few months ago, and I'm telling you that was at the top of my bucket list.
Kimberly Schlapman
#61. Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.
Eric Cantona
#62. Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
R.C. Sproul
#63. 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.
James Lafferty
#64. 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.
Paula Abdul
#65. Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
Lord Byron
#66. To find Me and hear My voice, you must seek Me above all else. Anything that you desire more than Me becomes an idol.
Sarah Young
#67. Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
Muddy Waters
#69. An illustration that does not complement a story, in the end, will become but a false idol. Since we cannot possibly believe in an absent story, we will naturally begin believing in the picture itself.
Orhan Pamuk
#70. 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.
Willie Aames
#71. The TV is often on in our house, but I really only keep up with three shows: 'American Idol,' 'Modern Family' and 'The Walking Dead.' Sometimes I'll sip red wine - it's a nice way to slow down and relax.
Carrie Underwood
#73. Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.
Aneurin Barnard
#74. Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing
Aamir Khan
#75. The only 'Idol' music I've ever purchased is Phillip Phillips.
Crystal Bowersox
#76. A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
Roger Daltrey
#77. This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?
Mary McCarthy
#79. Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly Parton
#80. For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an insensible uncertainty, that is, sooner worship an idol than grapple with the philosophers.
Neel Burton
#81. 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.
Marla Sokoloff
#82. I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
Chris Daughtry
#83. Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.
Freddie Mercury
#85. I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.
Gilda Radner
#86. Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Jerry Rice
#88. I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
Katey Sagal
#89. Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
#90. My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#91. Success in ministry is important, but when I assume it is all-important, I have made it an idol ... It is possible to make such an idol of success that you prize it more than God.
Brad Bigney
#92. I'm also a big 'American Idol' fan. I think it's just great fun.
Jim Parsons
#93. My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.
Andrea Bocelli
#94. People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
Namie Amuro
#95. If we had to choose one American Idol to go out to dinner with, it would be Fantasia. There are no airs and graces about her ... I like her.
Simon Cowell
#96. I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained.
Kelly Clarkson
#97. First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.
John Milton
#98. When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol."
Daryl Wein
#99. 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.
Pia Toscano
#100. I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
Malin Akerman
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