Charley Pride Quotes

You're still my idol.

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

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

If there was ever someone to look up to, it's Tom Hanks.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.

Happily we do not idolize our public men.

Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn't get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

I idolized my father, especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room.

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.

Aretha Franklin, first and foremost... That's my top girl there.

I do have people looking up to me, which is still kind of weird to me. 'I'm like, 'Why? What have I done?'