Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

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

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.

James Iha

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

Lamar Odom

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Wislawa Szymborska

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

Matt Dillon

Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.

Matt Bomer

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Wendy Kopp

I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.

Kay Henderson

They're role models in their communities, ... These kids, I would take 'em anywhere. They've got so much to share.

Paulo Freire

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

Gaspard Ulliel

I'm not really a model.

Neil Currie

For people to pick on the models is inappropriate.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Sophie Monk

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.