Growing up with four older brothers, we were into everything! They started snowboarding when I was just a tiny button, and I loved watching them shredding in the backyard. After seeing them compete in a few contests, it was all over. I idolized the sport from day one.

Hannah Teter

Pet Love Art

I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.

Adrian Younge

Music Chance Wit

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

Respect Very Ted

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Albert Einstein

Respect Very Ted

When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

Amanda Fuller

You Yin Who

Growing up, I idolized Big Boss Man and Bam Bam Bigelow just because they were big guys who could move and were tough. I felt like they both rode motorcycles. And Bam Bam had his head tattooed. Those are the guys who really got me into wrestling.

Baron Corbin

Wrestling Wing Win

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Ben Silbermann

Cool Were Ways

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.

Bill Dedman

Art Though Thou

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

Bobby Sherman

Work Money Worked

I have always idolized eccentric people.

Brandon Boyd

Ways Way T

When I was a critic, I reviewed Public Enemy's 'Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age' - this is back in '94 - and I called it a 'Dante-esque spiral of the hip-hop hell.' I idolized Chuck D, but I just hated that record, and I did not hold back. Chuck didn't freeze me out. Every time I met Chuck, he always treated me with the utmost respect.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Time Respect Age

First time I met Hulk Hogan, I had a life-sized poster of him in my room and I idolized him as a kid.

Christian Cage

Time Life Tim

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.

Daniel Wu

Wing Win Were

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

Dave Barry

Who Us Tones

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Dwayne Johnson

Work War Mom

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

Elizabeth Banks

Yacht Ya Wit

To know that a kid could come up to me in 20 or 30 years and say, 'Hey, here's a picture of us. I met you at a meet-and-greet, and I idolized you as a child. I'm a WWE Superstar, too, because you inspired me.' That's crazy to think, but it could happen. I made it, so if I can make it, anybody can.

Enzo Amore

You Years Year

I became real good friends with John Stockton and Karl Malone and am still good friends with them to this day. It was always good to go see them and then play with them in the 1996 Olympics as well. I idolized John Stockton at the time, I tried to model my game after him.

Gary Payton

Time Good Alone

Growing up with four older brothers, we were into everything! They started snowboarding when I was just a tiny button, and I loved watching them shredding in the backyard. After seeing them compete in a few contests, it was all over. I idolized the sport from day one.

Hannah Teter

Pet Love Art

I always idolized Zidane.

James Rodriguez

Ways Way Idolized

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

War Art Age

I've always idolized Diana Ross's hair. Why not have fun, big curls? You see the same sleek waves everywhere.

Jillian Hervey

My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.

Jinder Mahal

I had my serious side - I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.

John Ritter

The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.

Johnny Mathis

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

Josh Gad

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I needed to take a break from acting, because I really idolized it. So I came off from it, and I went on a journey to discover my relationship with God, and I became a Christian. It really just gave me so much love and light within myself. I felt secure, like I didn't need validation from anyone else, or getting a part.

Letitia Wright

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

Lorenzo Lamas

You know, when you've idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn't want us to idolize.

Martin Luther King III

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

Michael Hutchence

I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?

Mike D

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

Patti Smith

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.

Pia Toscano

I always idolized guys like Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Steve Young and the entire 49ers team, really. I was a huge 49ers fan growing up.

Reggie Bush

I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.

Robert Englund

I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid. I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him.

Roberto Clemente

I've always idolized Jay-Z He's one of my favorite persons, even before I knew him personally.

Romeo Santos

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

RuPaul

Getting to share the ring with guys I idolized is never going to stop being surreal for me.

Seth Rollins

I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring - he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring... he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility.

Tommy Morrison

From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

Zoe Kravitz