Beth Grant Quotes

I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

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

I think that there are many ways in which people look for heroes, messiahs, things like that in society. I think some people are looking for something that maybe they don't possess. To me, ultimately, you are looking for someone who understands you, or at least you think understands you. It all comes down to understanding for who we look to as heroes.

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

We grow into that which we admire.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

First I wanted to be an ice skater, and then I saw 'Bye, Bye Birdie,' and everything changed. I'm glad I learned through the process of theater.

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her.

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.

Marlon Brando was the major influence in my life, though I never met him. And my father - we didn't get along, but he was an influence in terms of honesty and work ethic. That's the greatest compliment I could pay him.

I've always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I've also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.