Ross Mathews Quotes

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

There are so many people I wish I could have met:

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in person. And, you know, Dolly Parton... I wouldn't mind seeing Dolly Parton. She's from Tennessee, I'm from Tennessee.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.

We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

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.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

I liked movers and shakers more than celebrities. I wasn't that interested in celebrities. I grew up without a TV.

I'd love to meet Gandhi. And Christ. I'm sure he'd be interesting. And a lot different than a lot of people would think.

I've actually met quite a few of my heroes from the past.

Every generation has to have its heroes.

I have met Madonna. I have met Oprah Winfrey. I have met some of the most phenomenal people alive.

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be drawn with bulging eyes and no chin.

I cannot believe the volume of famous people I run into in my life, and that's part of the reason I love diary format.

I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!