Natalie Portman Quotes

I grew up watching Oprah on television. So, to say I didn't learn a lot from her just wouldn't be true.

My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

We can all learn something from people we admire.

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her.

I want to be the best role model I can be for my family.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great.

Oprah played a big role in my understanding of what it meant to be female and to really step into your own power. I wouldn't even call her a role model; she was literally a reference point. You have the dictionary, you have the Bible, you have Oprah.

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

Roy Schneider was cool. I learned quite a bit from him.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.