Mentor Quotes

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.

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.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

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

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

But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.

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

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.

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.

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

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

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

In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts.

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.

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.

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.