Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!
My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.
If you cannot aim to become a great influential person, at least try to become a decent role model to someone out there.
As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
I think that every enduring story that has expressions over multiple periods, that role of being the keeper of the integrity of the vision is a very important role.
But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
I like to think I'm multi-faceted. Actually, my favorite roles are roles like in 'Far from Heaven.' Y'know. Soft people. Loving people.
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
