Richard Cohen Quotes

I remember famous people coming in to speak to me when I was in school and being inspired by them.

I've actually met quite a few of my heroes from the past.

There were three people I always wanted to meet: Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, and Nelson Mandela.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

My parents are my role models. I also love Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Tom Cruise and Jennifer Lopez. When I see their work, I get engulfed in it. They really capture me.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.

If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.

I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

I talk about role models a lot and wanting to be a role model for kids around me because I didn't have that growing up.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.

Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.

All great men are partially inspired.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.