Negative Role Models Quotes

There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

It's difficult to expect kids not to bully one another when they don't have many examples otherwise in society.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

People need help, advice and love, not websites telling you how to lose your last pound, or scantily clad, deeply anorexic celebrities parading around flaunting their golden bones.

I had some bad influences in my time and, if my parents weren't there to straighten me out, things might have gone haywire.

No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

This is not about the aesthetics: there is a rule in a society: "Whoever you deal with, makes you become them", therefore watching the efforts of para-athletes can bring the temporary mobility disorder. If we want humanity to develop, the television should show us people who are healthy, beautiful, strong, honest and wise - not perverts, murderers, weaklings, losers, idiots or invalids.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.

Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.

We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.

I imagine that thinking is the great desideratum of the present age; and the cause of whatever is done amiss may justly be reckoned the general neglect of education in those who need it most, the people of fashion. What can be expected where those who have the most influence have the least sense, and those who are sure to be followed set the worst examples?

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

This culture is sort of antithetical in everything it says to the kids. I don't want to pick on 'Jersey Shore,' but it's pretty clear. I would tell the kids good behavior and hard work will pay off, and then they go home and watch TV and go, 'Oh, that's not true.'

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.

One of my biggest fears when I see really bad people on T.V. is that I don't know how they got there.

Nobody is like the person I am on TV, surely, only Cruella de Vil, or the wicked witch from Snow White.

The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.