“I think a big part of 'American Idol' that scares people and actually has, I'm sure, stopped people from trying out is the fact that you do have to do things that are necessarily not your genre.”
| Stanley Baldwin, Statesman (1867) |
| Michael Ealy, Actor (1973) |
| Charles Edison, Businessman (1890) |
| Hamilton Fish, Politician (1808) |
| P. D. James, Novelist (1920) |
| Mathieu Kassovitz, Director (1967) |
| John Landis, Actor (1950) |
| Lord Amherst, Soldier (1797) |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer (2004) |