Mentor Quotes

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher.

Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.

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.