Zoe Kazan Quotes

I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

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

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

I've been asked before, "Who are your heroes?" and these types of questions. I always find it hard to identify a single person or a single book or this sort of thing. I've always been forward looking. I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much anything you want. You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish. I was given a sense of confidence and I never really felt the need to - or I've never had the benefit, I should probably say - of being inspired by outside heroes.

It's not just children who need heroes.

Every generation has to find their own heroes.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly. I feel very lucky that a lot of my influences are the ones that people will tweet to me that I remind them of.

I've been so lucky, with incredible mentors along the way, that now I need to be that for someone else.

I like to give people equipment and stuff. For me, it's a kind of payback. Anyone who is an influence or hero for me, I'm always concerned with how I can balance the karma.

Whatever I am today is all because of the love and support I have received from the people of Haryana.

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.

The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

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

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

Not one day goes by when I don't remind myself of how grateful I am for those who came before me over the last 25 years. When I see players like Mike Schmidt and Johnny Bench, I thank them.

Without my mentors there is no Misty.

I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

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

I have so many mentors. I'm really lucky to be surrounded by incredible mentors, whether it be Solange Knowles or Gloria Steinem or Ava DuVernay, there are so many awesome people in my life, and so I'm lucky for them to kind of have fostered my identity as I grow into myself.