Tom Green Quotes

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

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

You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.

It's like Christians who want to be like Jesus. We're just trying to follow in someone's footsteps. Might as well be The Beatles.

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.

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.

Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.

They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them.

Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

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.

My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!

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

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

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 think a lot of the time having someone who you, not base yourself on, but can see yourself being after a few years, you can get quite blinded by that, in the same way love can be.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.