Nancy Pearcey Quotes

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

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

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

I think you look around the world in general, and who are the most popular people in the world? You can say that politicians and musicians are up there, but I guarantee you that athletes are ranked right up at the top if not more than a lot of those people. When you're well known, people look at you - especially kids. They want to be you.

Film stars and players can be sources of entertainment but never ideals.

Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

I don't really get star struck.

Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.

Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.

Don't go watching reality TV thinking your going to find a role model.

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

People say that when you become famous you're growth is kind of stunted. That kind of makes sense because you are around people who are just agreeing with you and leading you into different places and you don't really make many choices for yourself.

When you are young, you admire the people you see on TV and you want to have the same gestures and the same attitudes and behave in the same way. It is a responsibility.

If you look at the role models that are out there, the women that tend to be photographed tend to be actresses and models, whereas the men are often in the media because of what they do in terms of business and sport.

I grew up thinking Margaret Cho and Lucy Liu were my idols because that's it.

I think that, pretty much, any good thing taken to extremes can become a bad thing.

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.

I think we all grow up with idols and things like that.