Idol Quotes

I would say that Lucy, 'I Love Lucy,' she was my idol.

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

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.

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

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.