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Bernard Hopkins is one of my idols.
David Haye
Bernard
Hopkins
Idols
On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
Dennis Haysbert
Marlon Brando
Favorite
Laurence
Laurence Olivier
Had
Football
Football Players
Along
Idols
Were
Sir
Brando
Wall
Childhood
Baseball
Baseball Players
Players
Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.
Dexter Holland
Thought
Punk
Big
Ramones
Our
Punk Rock
Never
Rock
Idols
Get
Did
Hobby
Choice
Certainly
Fun
Career
Career Choice
Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray's studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn't charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.
Don Felder
Work
Looking
Cloud
Nine
Dime
Charge
Charles
Angeles
Studio
Ray
Ray Charles
Invited
Couple
Him
Idols
Los
Los Angeles
Demos
His
Huge
Same
Moved
After
Happened
Room
Working
Sat
Played
I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.
Drake Bell
Me
Musicians
Man
Soul
Cats
Crushed
Met
Busy
Hey
Would
Charles
My Soul
Had
Ray
Ray Charles
Like
Said
Idols
Legendary
Brian
Many
I can't say I have had a ton of Hollywood exposure, as strange as that sounds. But by pure happenstance, I trailed Javier Bardem on a red carpet at a film festival in Palm Springs years ago. He's one of my idols, and I endeavor to walk an artistic path similar to his own.
Ethan Peck
Strange
Walk
Path
Pure
Endeavor
Own
Say
Carpet
Similar
Had
He
Red
Red Carpet
Idols
Sounds
Springs
His
Years
Years Ago
Festival
Artistic
Happenstance
Hollywood
Exposure
Film
Film Festival
Ton
Palm
I definitely take influences from my idols David Bowie and Billy Joel. I've combined them with the Frankie Grande-isms that I've cultivated over singing every night for two shows a week for four years on Broadway.
Frankie Grande
Singing
Every
Broadway
Definitely
Frankie
Week
David
David Bowie
Take
Over
Combined
Bowie
Idols
Cultivated
Years
Influences
Them
Billy
Billy Joel
Shows
Four
Every Night
Night
Two
I think, definitely, I was hugely influenced by - obviously like Adele and Florence the Machine. They were my complete idols growing up. But also, there were a lot of influences from my dad, like singer-songwriters of the '70s like Carole King and James Taylor.
Freya Ridings
King
Think
Complete
Adele
Machine
Definitely
Like
Also
Obviously
Idols
Were
Lot
Up
Hugely
Influenced
Influences
James
James Taylor
Taylor
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Florence
I have two idols in my life - God and my mum.
Gabriel Jesus
Life
God
My Life
Idols
Mum
Two
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.
Hernan Cortes
Success
War
Prosperity
Victory
Honor
Everything
Seek
Thus
Another
Idol
Idols
Labors
Which
Petition
Serve
Desire
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.
Imelda Staunton
Good
Me
Jobs
Bette
More
Bette Davis
Adore
Davis
Because
Makes
Doing
Idols
Were
Just
Leigh
Interested
Them
Themselves
Actress
Present
One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.
Jacob Latimore
Old
First
Big
About
Brown
He
Opened
Still
Idols
Years
Up
Just
Shows
Now
Chris
Chris Brown
I want people to be true to themselves and believe in themselves. I want people to stop looking to celebrity idols and look to themselves instead, because we need real people to inspire us.
Jade Jagger
People
Inspire
Be True
Looking
Believe
Instead
True
Look
Because
Real
Idols
Celebrity
Real People
Stop
Want
Themselves
Us
Need
Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.
Jan Brewer
You
Three
President
Our
President Reagan
Immigrants
Secured
Administration
Would
Would-Be
Borders
About
Fact
Know
Got
Reagan
Idols
Happen
Bush
Bush Administration
Granted
Illegal
Who
Illegal Immigrants
Based
Amnesty
Million
I always wear rings and cuffs from Made Her Think because designer Meredith Kahn is my friend and is one of my fashion idols. Everything she creates is really fresh.
Jessie Baylin
Fashion
Made
Think
Everything
Rings
Wear
My Friend
She
Because
Fresh
Always
Idols
Friend
Really
Creates
Her
Designer
The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.
Jon Landau
Beatles
Old
Nothing
Intimidated
John
John Lennon
Never
Simply
Knew
Joyfully
Well
Does
Rock
How
Idols
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Lennon
Interpret
Interpreted
Played
If you want to make idols accessible - which I think Shakespeare should be - then you have to bring a human touch, make it self-effacing and warm.
Joseph Fiennes
You
Think
Touch
Shakespeare
Make
Accessible
Idols
Human
Want
Which
Warm
Then
Should
Bring
My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval from someone like Timbaland whom I know that these artists respect, that is a huge feat.
Jussie Smollett
Respect
Approval
Someone
Feat
Absolute
Like
Prince
Know
Idols
Were
Huge
Up
Michael
Michael Jackson
Get
Jackson
Artists
Stamp
Growing
Whom
Growing Up
The thing is that my idols have always been the types of guys who could do anything: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Sinatra, Dean Martin; and when you look up to people like that, you don't accept that you need to be compartmentalised.
Justin Timberlake
You
People
Astaire
Types
Fred
Fred Astaire
Martin
Gene
Gene Kelly
Guys
Could
Sinatra
Like
Look
Accept
Always
Dean
Dean Martin
Idols
Been
Up
Anything
Who
Thing
Kelly
Need
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.
Kevin Corrigan
Me
Worship
Had
Idol
Idols
Up
Naturally
Many
Inclination
Growing
Growing Up
For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
Lamar Odom
Young
Rappers
Athletes
John
Wearing
Seeing
Brothers
Look
Idols
Been
Years
Up
Any
Just
James
Icons
Rick
Professional
Professional Athletes
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.
Lindsay Lohan
Love
Day
Alive
Would
Madonna
Also
She
Still
Idols
Audrey
Audrey Hepburn
Roles
Switch
Hepburn
Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
Maluma
Martin
Industry
Idols
Ricky
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
Margaret Qualley
School
Dance
Job
Drop
Become
Apprenticeship
Dancer
Everything
Carolina
Out
Run
High
John
High School
About
Drop-Out
Perfectly
Pierre
Sort
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Idols
Offered
North
North Carolina
Quit
Theater
Who
Professional
Company
Actually
I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.
Margo Jefferson
Space
Black
White
Locate
Dared
Writers
Between
Forbidden
Vulnerability
Idols
Literary
Sanctioned
Found
Kennedy
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.
Meg White
Out
Find
About
Like
Know
Read
Idols
Autobiographies
Want
Biggest
Really
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