Mac DeMarco Quotes

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

When you have a celebrity status, people feel inspired by you people. They start to emulate what you are doing. So it inspires me as a celebrity to do something which is for greater good.

I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

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

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.

Obviously, as somebody who is famous, I have a particular responsibility

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

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

When we're out there, you'll never know a lot of people are gonna look up to you. You don't realize it, but soon you go on social media and see all the messages and people try to reach out to you and you start to realize how huge and how people look up to you.

I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.

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 don't know what Donal Trump motive is but I know what he's preaching is a very, very dangerous brew for America. Is this just a guy doing Celebrity Apprentice for himself? Is this just a guy who's an entertainer? It may have started there but I now think he wants to be president. Also, I don't think there's much chance of that.

I get a lot of people who will either write to me or come up in public and say, "My daughter, son, family, or I, etc. look up to you."

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.