Idols Quotes

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.

Even though it was a stressful time in my life, I have a lot of good memories from my Idol experience.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience.

I'm also a big American Idol fan. I think it's just great fun.

It's great to get to work with your idols.

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

Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.

When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel.

Tony [Touch] is like my big brother. He's somebody that I grew up listening to. I've had the fortune of befriending a lot of my idols in a positive way. Tony is one of them.

I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.

Michael Jackson has been my idol since before I could even walk.

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.

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.

Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

The idol in the temple is not God. But since God resides in every atom, He resides in that idol too.

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

I never really had an idol.

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Leadership that is entirely self-directed will always be pathological. The only thing worse than worshipping an idol is to act like an idol.

I always say to my wife, don't tell anyone I watch this [shows like The X Factor and Pop Idol], but it fascinates me because I've done so many auditions and been knocked back.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

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.

My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

I am extremely grateful for my 'American Idol' experience, and I enjoyed every bit of it.

Neuter discourse is a false idol.

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.