Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Corgan

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

Carrie Underwood

American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.

Anton LaVey

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!

Billy Bob Thornton

We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous from a contest show we'd be embarrassed in my generation. But if that's the benchmark then I thought well young people who want to be filmmakers, or musicians, or whatever are screwed. But maybe they're not because what they're doing is they're creating their own thing.

Kevin Corrigan

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

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Agatha Christie

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

Adrian Rogers

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Dave Grohl

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Bill Condon

It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

John Street

I think they've been unfairly treated, ... You don't need to be in the Superdome, you look at the television and you can see it.

Sharon Thomas

I watch television and I cry, and then I watch television and then I cry, and then I go on.

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Aaron Harberts

Gretchen actually used to work at a television station.

Bille August

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

Chris Elliott

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Carol Burnett

The audience is never wrong.