Nicolas Roeg Quotes

It's hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don't have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

There are a lot of people I look up to and respect, but there's nobody really specific I would call a hero.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

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

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

All my heroes are teachers.

I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.

I don't think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

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

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

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."

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

It's not just children who need heroes.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor.