I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

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.

I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids' table at Thanksgiving. You're not really invited to the big dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

My statue at Ole Miss is a false idol. And it wasn't put there for my benefit. It was put there for Ole Miss and Mississippi.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling.

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.