I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
No matter what role I play, I have a certain image to maintain. I believe I'm a role model and I take my parts accordingly.
Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.
I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.
You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.
I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.
I never have compared myself to Jessica Tandy in any way, and that's such a great role model for me to look at. I'm seriously going to put pictures of her in my dressing room and commune with her from now on, I think.
I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.
I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.
I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.
The part of acting business is the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.
Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.
I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.
That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.