Jon M. Chu Quotes

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

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

I never get star-struck. I never fanboy. Ever, ever, ever.

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

You never see yourself as that interesting. You're like, 'Really? Me? You want a picture with me? I'm boring!' But if I saw somebody like Simon Pegg or Johnny Depp, or one of my heroes, I'd get totally starstruck and want to go ask them for a picture.

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.

There are no big groupie fans or anything.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

I probably should get a bit more star-struck but I never do.

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

I never get starstruck.

The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in any weather to see, touch, watch, hear, read, wear, or simply enjoy proximity to the object of their devotion.

Groupies are just very enthusiastic fans, that's all.

It's super cool to me when my manager screencapped Sharon Van Etten saying my album is great on Twitter and I about cried 'cause she's a hero. And that led to... I got to have lunch with her! I got to meet a hero!

I don't really get star struck.

The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.

I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

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