I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.
Hilary Duff has been my role model forever. I went to her concert like right when her music started coming out when I was probably like 11. I was just amazed by her. So now, to be compared to her, it's like. . . holy moly. It's so cool!
To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.
Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
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.
I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.
We wish we could have been there for you. We didn't have many role models of our own--we latched on to the foolish love of Oscar Wilde and the well-versed longing of Walt Whitman because nobody else was there to show us an untortured path. We were going to be your role models. We were going to give you art and music and confidence and shelter and a much better world. Those who survived lived to do this. But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.
My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.
I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.
Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone - including yourself - upward.
A lot of times we expect people who get money and fame to suddenly become this "role model" or this "icon. " That ain't how it works. Money and fame - all it does it just allows you to be more of who you really are.
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
Being a role model is a privilege.
A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me. "
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.