Manini Mishra Quotes

'The Cosby Show' changed America's opinion on so many different topics and opened so many people's eyes, and so you really learned immediately the power of what you were doing, that there was a power in portraying a role, and you were made aware of the effect that it could have on people, so it does raise the bar.

I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an entertainer, they're automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. They're just doing their own version of entertaining.

We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed watching that black family.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody's mindset. I think it's just entertainment. For me, I've always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I've stuck to that, and I will also in the future.

Kids are great imitators. Give them something great to imitate.

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

Being a model and an actress, I feel we a have a responsibility towards society.

Growing up, I'd watch 'The Cosby Show' and 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air;' I'd look at the little brown girls and be inspired by them.

I think there's a responsibility to any character that you play that was a living persona.

Athletes are given a really special platform. It's our duty, as athletes, to be role models.

We in the media accept the responsibility of what we do.

People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

Let children come across good as well as bad things. MTV is unnecessarily criticised for dishing out obscenity.

Actors have a social responsibility.

We rappers are role models.

Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.

We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth.

I think a lot of people do see me as like a role model or as an ambassador.

The more I got into my artistry, I got a bigger responsibility: the kids in Chicago, they look up to the rappers. We influence them.

I think there's enough TV that makes people feel dumb out there.