Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Burke

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chip Conley

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Blu Cantrell

I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

Blu Cantrell

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

Denis Waitley

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Benjamin Franklin

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Demi Lovato

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Miley Cyrus

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

Carnie Wilson

I understand that I'm a role model.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Charles Barkley

I'm not a role model.

Bruce Jenner

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

Ben Horowitz

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Brian J. White

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

Miley Cyrus

Hilary Duff has been my role model forever. I went to her concert like right when her music started coming out when I was probably like 11. I was just amazed by her. So now, to be compared to her, it's like...holy moly. It's so cool!

Miley Cyrus

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.

Cathy Freeman

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

Claudia Rankine

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.

Allyson Felix

Being a role model is a privilege.

Andy Cohen

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

Alexa Chung

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

Amber Tamblyn

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

Danica Patrick

I never thought I'd be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It's very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.

Meryl Streep

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Donald Miller

We have to have positive male role models.

Gabourey Sidibe

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

Jack Dee

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

Isabella Rossellini

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

R. Lee Ermey

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

Mark Indelicato

I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.