Nelson Mandela was an OUTSTANDING leader and a MENTOR for me. I was in South AFRICA at the TIME he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first PRESIDENT.

Eventually, all mentor-DISCIPLE relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor DROPS the disciple, and that's no FUN.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He TAUGHT me things he had learned from being in FRONT of a CAMERA so LONG.

My mentor in college was Stephen SHORE. I loved his COLOR palettes and his taking MUNDANE THINGS but finding them fascinating.

I was ALWAYS SURROUNDED by PEOPLE that WANTED to MENTOR you.

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a POTENTIAL MENTOR to a budding WRITER, and yet this is what I BECAME.

I spent my entire CHILDHOOD with my father. I started my FIRST business at 16, and we became business PARTNERS. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also SOMEONE whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.

Cooking is in an HONEST PROFESSION where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And FIND a MENTOR who will recognize your TALENT and push you in the right direction.

I just LIKE artist-driven PROJECTS, but for ARTISTS themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying BUILDINGS and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.

It's an honor to be presented with an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my mentor, Mike Mansfield, who worked to STRENGTHEN and improve AMERICA's important RELATIONSHIPS throughout ASIA.

My father, OBVIOUSLY, and my MOTHER were INSPIRATIONS. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

I took advice from Salman Khan, GETTING health tips because he is my mentor, and I take his advice for everything I do from Salman bhai. He has given me a lot of tips on body BUILDING because he was the FIRST person to start the trend of FITNESS in the country.

When your dad is your father, best FRIEND and mentor, all in one, it's HARD to explain what he BRINGS. He brings CONFIDENCE and self-awareness through my game, on and off the court. I'm blessed to have him.

I have a MENTOR. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but PEOPLE WHOSE opinions I REALLY respect and who I will TURN to.

I don't REALLY LOOK at myself as a MENTOR.