Moby Quotes

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

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.

Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

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 really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

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

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.