It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

- Charles Jencks

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

- John Travolta

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

- Justin Timberlake

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

- John Mayer

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

- John Legend

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

- Jane Goodall

To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

- Isabella Rossellini

I never thought I would be somewhat of a gay icon.

- Eric Stonestreet

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

- Edmund Hillary

I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.

- Diana Ross

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

- Alex Rodriguez

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

- Corey Feldman

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

- Cam Newton

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

- Bar Refaeli

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

- Amanda Hocking

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

- Ashley Benson

The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.

- Ashley Wagner

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

- Aisha Tyler

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

- Audrey Hepburn

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

- Amitabh Bachchan