Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.
The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. . . yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
Pedestals are always lonely.
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.
