Quotes About Role models

My mom and my dad was the best example of unconditional love I could see as a kid. I've known it my whole life. Interactions, kissing, hugging - it definitely wasn't the fake love.

Since middle-class women have been sequestered from the world, isolated from one another, and their heritage submerged with each generation, they are more dependent than men are in the cultural models to offer, and more likely to be imprinted by them. [...] Given few role models in the world, women seek them on the screen and the glossy page.

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

I remember watching when D-Wade and LeBron were here playing for the Heat. I remember watching them play the Lakers with Kobe. So I just was able to watch those games growing up and really watch my favorite players.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.

I loved Mia Hamm, and I really looked up to Julie Foudy as well, who is one of my mentors.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

I know I've had many great mentors and role models and guys to look up to; guys I've learned a lot from so I know how to approach being that guy and I've been doing it for a long time.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with.

I love Madhuri Dixit, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Sandra Bullock.

I really look up to Amy Adams, who I got to work with, Meryl Streep, and Angelina Jolie.

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

Messi and Ronaldinho were the two players who were my idols when I was young.

My heroes were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and now it is Messi.

I learned a lot from Ronaldinho and Messi.

I love Messi. I also derive inspiration from the god of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar.

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

I think we always look up to legends and people who not only win but give us a larger than life role model... I think Michael Jordan is this, someone who became bigger than his sport.