Icons Quotes - Page 5

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.

I want to be an icon.

Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in The Firm or FBI Agent Stokes in Mississippi Burning. Its the same deal. Its just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, How does it feel to be a horror icon? Im thrilled. Its great.

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

These are icons to be treasured.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.

Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's got the best moustache in American history. Got the moustache, right, and he's got that little thing on his chin, I think it's called an imperial, that is, like, the coolest thing. That's like one of the great icons of the twentieth century.

The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring.

I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.