Model Quotes

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

My role model is my dad.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

Being a role model, you just got to watch what you do.

Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world.

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway.

There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.