Quotes About Role models

I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn.

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

My boys will not only respect and admire women and see them as their equals, but they will also see them as sources of inspiration and knowledge.

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand

While I was passing through the age of "hero-worship" I found myself trying to imitate those whom I most admired. Moreover, I discovered that the element of FAITH, with which I endeavored to imitate my idols, gave me great capacity to do so quite successfully.

Long before I had ever written a line for publication, or endeavored to deliver a speech in public, I followed the habit of reshaping my own character, by trying to imitate the nine men whose lives and life-works had been most impressive to me. These nine men were Emerson, Paine, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford, and Carnegie. Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary council meeting with this group whom I called my "Invisible Counselors.

As a kid I used to wear my mother's dupattas and saris and emulate Hema Maliniji or Rekhaji in front of the mirror.

I actually love Little Mix, and I think they're doing a great job.

I didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in 'Akeelah and The Bee.' That film made me realize that I wasn't an alien.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

My parents are definitely my biggest role models.

It's really great to hear that people do look at us as role models and we hope we are able to live up to that expectation as well.

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

I come from a city where we really didn't have too many role models.

I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.

I like Chelsea, Milan and Inter. I have always followed the two Italian teams because my role models when I was young were Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, and they played for those teams.

Look and image were very important - there was already incredible pressure to look feminine and sexy but I wanted to look individual and strong. I didn't have any role models except Little Nell from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'

We're supposed to be role models for kids.

You have responsibilities, and you are role models to kids. That comes with the job.

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

It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.

We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.