Quotes About Role models

In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.

Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Both Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi never ever stop playing for the team. If I were young today, they are players on which I would mirror myself. Players of this level, play for the team. Players that are the best because they prepared themselves to bet You don't see these players going out, on social media, skipping training to be in parties.

When I was smaller, I always looked up to Zidane, Messi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.

My role models came in my imagination, from what I'd heard on the radio or on record... Vera Lynn I loved, but I'd only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.

Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.

I have three brothers, and they were all snowboarders, and I always looked up to them. That's the reason I started snowboarding. I always wanted to be just as good as they were.

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.

I've always had a thing about Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, and Imelda Staunton. I'm hoping to follow in their footsteps.

I think about what I grew up seeing, what I didn't see growing up, and what it felt like when I did see someone who I thought that I could relate to, just living their life on screen.

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.

As a young Scottish footballer growing up - I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games - Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, and Joe Jordan were players I looked up to.