Eric McCormack Quotes

I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody.

Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they're capable of and the world as it should be seen.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.

I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.

You don't need too much to have an agenda of how to father. You just have to be a good person. The interactions at home between you and your spouse and the way you deal with your kids in certain situations, that's what they take.