Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Isaac Mizrahi

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

Elle Fanning

I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always seen her. She's been acting my whole life and she's grown up on film, so it's neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I've always seen her doing it.

Jordan Peele

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Kel Mitchell

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

Mason Cooley

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

Lauren Hutton

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

Lady Gaga

I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another.

Emily Robison

I did have role models, but most of them were male.

Maya Angelou

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

Kathleen Hanna

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

Patrick Rothfuss

I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.

Lauren Potter

It feels amazing to be a role model for people with and without disabilities.

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.

R. Lee Ermey

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

Kristen Stewart

I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

Kiana Tom

More Asians need to be on television as a positive role model.

Margaret Cho

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

Margaret Cho

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Madonna Ciccone

I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

Marilyn Manson

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

Hans Kung

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

Mike Tyson

I am not a role model.

Lara Stone

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Sarah Palin

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

Wilma Rudolph

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Yuan T. Lee

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

Yani Tseng

Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her.