Carl Lewis was definitely a role model.
There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I’m their role model, so I have to make sure I’m always being professional and not putting any swear words out there – just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.
If I don’t get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says ‘openly gay,’ then it’s worth the risk because I’ve had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.
The world needs a person like me so that many other rich people will be able to follow my role model. If they do, many poor people will be helped.
What I would love, instead of being a role model, is being someone of inspiration.
I really believe that’s one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don’t realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.
That’s what cool about me being here and still being in the wrestling business. I can still give back, even being in the announcer’s booth. I still feel like I’m a role model and I have a job to do.
I never thought of myself as a role model, but I’ve had so many messages from girls, women, mothers saying I was an inspiration.
I didn’t ask to be a role model. I don’t like that responsibility. But if you see something in me that you really adore, thank you.
To me Prince Philip was a hero and a role model – and a friend.
I never had a role model or something.
I look up to the older generation of men – Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn – but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He’s brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.
I just did a spread in ‘Maxim’, I’m 35 years old. I’ve had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I’m still considered a role model.
I’m discovering, and I think other mums are discovering too, that when you become a mum, you don’t have to change into this frumpy, wholesome role model who is perfect and loses all of your identity. You can still have the same personality you’ve always had.
My dad wasn’t the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it’s personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.
You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
I can’t be a role model. I just can’t be.
Parents will often thank me for being a good role model for their kids or tell me, ‘You’ll never understand how much you mean to my daughter,’ so then I feel I don’t want to let down the parents, either.
We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
I wanted to be like my mum: as strong as her. She was my role model.
Don’t go watching reality TV thinking your going to find a role model.
You just have to know that there’s people watching you, and you’ve got to be a positive role model and not put yourself in bad situations.
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
I’m honored and excited to bring Dora to life. I grew up watching the show, and for me, especially as a Latina, Dora was an amazing role model – she is a strong, adventurous, and fun-loving girl.
It’s hard to consider myself one when a lot of my fans and people who are calling me a role model are people my age and sometimes older than me. I feel like they’re at the same walk of life that I’m in right now, and they can probably teach me things about life, too.
Hopefully I’m a role model for positive change for everyone – not just women. It’s very important to find balance between men and women.
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.
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn’t take one person’s opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
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 would never consider myself a role model in the wide sense of the word.
If I can be a role model and leader, I am happy to do that.
As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His ‘David Copperfield’ has had the strongest influence on me – I looked up to David Copperfield as a role model.
My role model has been Shah Rukh Khan. There is something or the other for one to learn from his career.
I am pleased that my work has been recognized, and I hope to be a role model.
For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.
I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
When I was starting out as a barrister in the 1980s, Lord Denning was the most famous judge in the land, and the supposed role model for every lawyer. But not for me.
Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine… so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
I’m really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.
I feel like I pull inspiration from everyone, and I feel like I’m honored and grateful that people feel that they can pull inspiration from me, be inspired by me. But I definitely don’t think I’m a role model. I’m not someone to be imitated.
If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it’s something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don’t sit at home and think about it too much, though – there’s plenty of other things in my life going on.
I stay away from the title of ‘role model.’ I want to be a more realistic role model – not a perfect Barbie role model.
When I grew up I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. That’s not very unusual for people to like him, but I just liked reading his books, especially where he came from, getting cut from his high school team. I thought he was a good person, a good role model to look up to.
Shaun Pollock is actually the best role model for me as a very good attritional bowler.
It’s been a big dream of mine, and I’m blessed to live out my dream and that’s to be a role model and be somebody that can help and be a beacon of hope for my cities. It’s just a blessing, and I don’t take it for granted at all.
I can’t let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
My dad is a great role model.
I think, for me, I’ve realized the responsibility of being a role model for young kids everywhere.
Rahul Dravid is my role model. I always used to watch him on the television. Now I get to interact with him up-close.
We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
I believe one’s responsibility as a role model begins and ends with their perception of what a good role model is.
Most of us are never educated about feelings. Instead, we’re expected to learn socially acceptable ways to deal with feelings by watching the people around us. But the truth is, many people don’t role model healthy ways to deal with feelings.
It’s cool to be a role model.
I like to think I’m a role model for women. But I also don’t like to just limit it to women. I like to think I’m a role model for human beings in general.
I hear all the time from our audience about how it’s nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
If people want to take the chance to watch, to see what I bring and try to use it to better themselves, yeah, OK. But I’m not one of these guys who’s going to try to be a role model and be an angel because I want to get a Nike sponsorship.
I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.
My role model was always Xavi Hernandez from Barcelona.
Raheem Sterling is a role model to a lot of young lads coming through.
