On behalf of all Americans, I would like to congratulate Michelle Smith on her dedication and determination which have made her a wonderful role model for all young athletes in Ireland and around the world.
I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up.
I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
I’m a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don’t care what people think of me. I don’t care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.
I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn’t come here to specifically be a role model or anything.
I’m flattered that other artists consider me a role model.
I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.
Frank was an example throughout my career at Chelsea, and throughout my career as a midfielder. When it comes to scoring goals as a midfielder, you look at Frank Lampard as a role model.
I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.
The first female DPs that I was aware of were Ellen Kuras, Mandy Walker, Nancy Schreiber, Amy Vincent, Sandi Sissel, Maryse Alberti and Tami Reiker. You look for a role model as somebody who looks like yourself and is doing what you want to do; they were the handful.
I didn’t have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
I don’t want my dad to say, ‘My daughter is an actress on a TV show.’ I want him to say, ‘My daughter cares about people.’ I would love to know that I’m a role model in Hollywood.
There will be times when I mess up. I’m human, but I want to be a role model for the good things I do and the bad things I do. And the times I do make mistakes, learn from those mistakes.
Without appearing smug in any way, I would say I did not have a role model. I wish I had but I did not.
I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.
I want to make sure I’m a role model for young girls and play the best I can for my team and my country.
I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
I’m a big admirer of Raheem and I think that he’s a big role model for people like myself, young black people and young people as a whole.
Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
I found through my fan mail that women… really wanted a role model.
No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It’s something you have to do on your own.
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.
I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I’m going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It’s a role model to me as much as to anybody else.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
I don’t think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.
My dad’s one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman’s an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he’s a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don’t necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.
Well, I always hope that I’m a role model.
I don’t see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.
I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn’t really prepared to be one, but it’s always something that I’ve taken very seriously.
If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.
My father wasn’t the best role model to me.
I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.
I’ve always thought of myself as a role model even before being a ‘celebrity.’ I’ve always been doing charity work and volunteering in the community since I was 8, so when you do that, I think you just assume that role when you put yourself out there.
I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it’s quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words ‘role model’, I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.
My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him – his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business – was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model.
Being a role model was part of my life and I could either ignore it or take responsibility. I chose to take it.
I didn’t go into acting because I wanted to be a role model.
To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
Obviously I’m not a role model for impressionable youth.
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
I think having a strong female figure in my mom as an in-house role model was huge and really motivated me to continue to pursue my passion and my dreams.
I’m all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.
Wonder Woman is out there very much defending the right and being strong and being a positive role model.
I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I’ve never felt like I’m a role model. I’m not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I’ll be dead so it won’t matter.
The ability to act as a role model shouldn’t depend on owning a pile of trophies. Instead, we should look at role models as whole people – people who fail but overcome adversity, people who inspire us both on and off the course, people who spend their time trying to make their community a better place.
I don’t care what anybody says: a pro athlete is going to be a role model. I tried to use that as a positive influence, to let kids know we are regular people.
Not a lot of people get to meet their role model and idol in life, and I’ve been really lucky that way.
I can remember back to when I was 12, 13, and any show that I watched, I wanted to be the main character and embody them, and I think the fact that Sabrina is, in so many ways, such a positive role model for young girls is really cool.
A leader has to be a role model both in both political and personal life, so from the beginning, I was cautious about my image and I wanted to be incorruptible like my father.
I’m aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn’t disregard that. It’s a privilege. That’s not to say people don’t make mistakes – we’re all human. No one’s perfect. I’m just going to be myself.
Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.
For me, I would say always try to figure out what your why is. For me, a lot of it is being a role model, representation, look at the bigger picture.
My greatest role model is my mom because she’s a Renaissance woman. She has had many careers over the course of her life because she really is just an extremely creative, passionate person and is very involved in many different things.
My mother is my first role model. We have lived every dream together. The way she has balanced everything in life makes me want to be like her.
I’m gonna be 20 in five months. I’m an adult, but I understand that there are nine-year-olds watching my every move, so I try, at least in a public, to be as good of a role model as I can.
Ever since Pele’s extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.
I’m a role model to a lot of kids.
In terms of being a vessel for female empowerment and a role model for young girls, I take it on gladly and seriously, but I hope people remember that I’m just a regular person, and I’m not going to be perfect.
