A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think actors need to go on pedestals. I don't buy it.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.
Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But as I was writing them, I didn't feel a part of any tradition. I think that would have been too overwhelming, in a sense.
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.