Claudia Rankine Quotes

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

As cricketers and professionals, with the scrutiny that is on us, we have to obviously be careful and behave ourselves.

I don't mind being a professional. As an athlete you are a role model, people are watching what you wear, listening to everything you say.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

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.

That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.

Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.

Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.

I'm not like a politician that goes around talking about family values. And I can't get fired from being a funny person because I did something that most people are disapproving of. I think people are just obsessed with this morality that people perceive as being the right and wrong way of doing stuff.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

I am not quite comfortable with people identifying themselves as my fans. You know nothing about me. You have just seen me perform in a film. How can you be my fan? If I have to tell you honestly, I want an audience and not fans.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.