Carey Mulligan Quotes

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

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

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

I think we all have experiences when we were young where we either had an interaction with someone we admired or you know, had a vision of how they were and found out that they weren't necessarily that and that it tends to be a big let down sometimes.

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.

A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.

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

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.

I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me.

I try to reach out to my idols.

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

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.

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.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

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 had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and 'you're my kid's idol.'

I was obsessed with Nelson Mandela. I had big posters of him in my bedroom and he became my proxy father figure. He was in jail, so I could project all sorts of things about what he would say to me.

I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

You should never meet your heroes.

It's hard to not act like a fan when you're in these scenes with your heroes, but you can't do that because you respect everybody so much.

I don't really idolize artists.

Every time I met any of my heroes I was disappointed - the exception was Joe Strummer, who was like an uncle to me.