Kylian Mbappe Quotes

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.

I have a lot of eyes on me because of basketball, a lot of young people looking up to me. It's made me grow up faster.

I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I haven't changed a bit. I go out with my mates, but I probably have to watch what I do a little more.

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

It's important to make teens realize the influence they have over others.

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

It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella? Do I carry a briefcase?' Because I'm trying to be some image of the adults I saw on TV growing up.

I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I'm a guy that a lot of people look up to. I haven't always handled situations the right way. That's why I have to continue to grow and be a better player, a better leader.

It's cool for young guys to see what their idols are doing.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

I know I have endorsed fast food in past, but now that people know me, I feel I should not do it. I have matured over the years as an actor, and I feel there is certain kind of responsibility that we have towards the society.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

It's overwhelming ... to know there are hundreds of kids out there that look up to me. I know that's a big responsibility. I am also very confident to say that it is wonderful and I'll do my best that I can do to be the best role model I can be.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.