Skyler Samuels Quotes

When kids want a picture or autograph, you reflect later on and realize you did something good. Then you see them come back five years later, they're all grown up, have their own lives and they tell you how much you inspired them. You're like, 'Whoa.'

You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

Being on Disney, a lot of young people look up to me.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.

Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

I was talking recently with a friend of mine who's determined to never meet her heroes, and I have another friend who's been horribly disillusioned a couple of times. But I've had a wonderful ride with meeting people who have been my North Stars, and Bowie's definitely one of them. He feels like my cousin; like the cousin I never had.

I know I was influenced by Beatrice Lillie. I must have been.

I could completely do without the fame. It makes me self-conscious. It is a responsibility. I believe that if people look up to you in any way, especially kids, then you have a responsibility to inspire them, both in your work and in your life. So, for me, that is a weight.

I didn't ask to be a role model. I don't like that responsibility. But if you see something in me that you really adore, thank you.

When I was younger, there were players who gave me pleasure, and now I'm in that role.

Willy Wonka's like my Michael Jordan.

I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

Life comes as a full circle. It feels good when you become someone's idol.

My dad had a huge influence. He's my idol, and I'm following everything he did, looking for something I can use myself.

It's really cool to see how many people try to imitate me or wear my stuff. I get a lot of Instagram videos of people doing my entrance. I think that's so cool. To see the variety of people, little girls, guys, doing it. I never really thought that would happen. It's amazing.

I love the way Shah Rukh Khan host awards. He's the one person that I look up to.

A lot of young girls look up to me and it's amazing.

As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.

It's a trip now that other bands are saying that they look up to us. In my mind, I'm still 18 years old trying to emulate Pantera in my bedroom.

The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.