Lindsay Mendez Quotes

We need to offer great examples to our youth.

I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just felt like Jon was on my side. I'll always be grateful to him for that. I just got the impression he wanted me to succeed, and then I wanted to succeed for him. I think that's good leadership.

Phillip Noyce was not just good to me but an inspiration to me.

It's always great for a young guy to have those examples, even though you may not follow 'em right away, it's great to have those guys in the locker room that you could look up to and see the right way to go about your business.

I don't say what I feel. I say what was said to me because my senior professionals were amazing to me. If I can do anything similar to the young pups, I will do that. My senior pros protected me and looked after me and made me feel amazing.

Me being a veteran presence, I want to see all my guys be successful.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

I've been blessed to have a lot of mentors in my life that just have been good people and hard workers. Jae Crowder is one of them; Jimmy Butler is one of them.

Working with Anurag sir was always a dream. He is the person I started my journey with.

Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game.

In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

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.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

Not many young women of my age have been lucky enough to have had a wonderful mentor in their life.

Young people need models, not critics.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

Leadership is about setting a good example for others to follow.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

My producer for the first 'Kung Fu Panda' movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She's supersmart and helps push everyone - male, female, anyone - to do their best.