Role Models Quotes – Some of the most inspiring Role Models quotations

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn’t telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I’m so glad that it’s changing.

I’ve done things that can be made fun of. It’s not such a bad thing. If I’m going to end up a role model, then I’d rather not end up being the kind of role model that pretends to be perfect, and pretends that she always has the right thing to say. I’m a product of role models that didn’t make me feel like I was as good as them.

My role models were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate, it was touchable. It was rare for me to idolize a movie star or a singer…because, truly, children connect with who is in their lives, present and accounted for.

No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d’ve turned on to that.

I’m really thrilled to kind of be a role models for my daughters, and showing them the passion about what I do, and I get to go to work and I love to go to work. That’s what I saw my mom doing my whole life.

Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we’re relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to – it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we’re seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven’t been educated about it or exposed to it. They don’t know enough about it to identify with it.

Maybe, instead of putting our standards on other people, we should be very reticent, apprehensive, and deliberate and methodical in choosing whom we choose to elevate in the eyes of the public as role models.