Quotes About Influence

Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.

The world's greatest power deserves to have the world's very best diplomatic corps.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.

I would like to direct.

Every actor wants to direct.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

ABBA was a direct influence on me.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I don't direct the plays of others.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

The way Raj Kapoor saab acted and directed all his life, I don't think there is anyone today who can even touch him. He was also from a theatre background. I consider him the teacher of creativity.

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

It wasn't until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me.

Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.