Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.'

I'm a sucker for hero worship.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

I was never disappointed by the people I've admired. And the choices I made when I was in a position where it was do-or-die were made with my heroes in mind.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.

Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

Britain has lots of celebrities who are well known and admired today, but we don't seem to have any heroes.