Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

I am pleased that my work has been recognized, and I hope to be a role model.

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star.

I look at someone like Chris Pratt with such admiration.

There's a lot of people I would be more than a little overwhelmed by and thrilled to work with.

My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He's my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He's one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.

I hope maybe one day I can be like Wayne Rooney. Maybe then some young players will be proud to play against me. That would be amazing.

I model myself on Christie Rampone and look up to her. Obviously, achieving what she's achieved would be magnificent. I'd really like to meet her just once.

It's very motivating, very aspiring to have the knowledge of me being able to be successful so young and have players go out of their way to talk about me.

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.

It's always great to know successful people like Canelo, especially those that make our country proud.

Life comes as a full circle. It feels good when you become someone's idol.

I just looked up to my brother because he was a professional. He was the one I wanted to follow.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.

I love Jessica Chastain. I love her; she's amazing, and she's such a good actress, and she's been nominated for Oscars, and she's just a big role model to me. I love her.

I want to make him the proudest dad to have me and I want to show everybody and nearly be as good as him because he was the best.

I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life.

This is something that's very special; people saying they watch me play who are now turning professional.