Quotes About Influence

For me, I'm not trying to be the flavor for everybody. But I'm just proud when people I respect or people that I want to be my fans are my fans.

When I was younger I used to watch 'Flavor Flav's.'

For people in London, Asian flavors are always part of the culture, more than in New York.

Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.

You don't always realize the impact you have on people's lives. You just think 'I'm an actor, I don't think I'm doing anything particularly important in life' and then you suddenly realize that actually for a fleeting moment you do make a difference to somebody's life - it has an impact.

Sometimes you meet someone who changes the way you think forever and yet you meet her for just those fleeting moments in life, perhaps never to meet her again.

I was born in 1974, so I grew up listening to what was on the radio - my mom's car sounded like Fleetwood Mac, because that was what was on the radio.

I don't understand why people take Beyonce so seriously. You don't feel like there's a living, breathing person. It's not flesh and blood. It's just flesh and flesh.

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you create 'cause you have to make them flesh and blood somehow.

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

I like flipping Coldplay. And I like Jessie Ware. But I'm sure how we grew up was totally different.

I just think that models and rock stars, and actors and actresses, all tend to flock to one another.

For me, whenever I get on the floor, I'm gonna try to impact the game and just do what I do.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

My guy growing up was Deacon Jones from Eatonville, Florida, where I'm from.

I am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

If you listen to Drake's first single... he copied my whole bar word for word and my cadence and my flow from my song. Can I just get my credit?

I've always wanted to work with Klashnekoff. He's been around for years! He's sorta my age but he is dope. The flow, the lyrics, it's just dope music.

I can clearly hear a lot of grime influence on Timbaland's stuff, on some of Drake's flows.

I love Keith Floyd - I think he inspired people to cook.

I think boxing is on the rise because of what Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor did. I think they captured the time and made boxing cool again.

I grew up in the area where we had Three 6 Mafia, and Playa Fly, and 8Ball & MJG. My parents and my family used to listen to it. I learned from them there, and got more into it - listening to the beat of songs, and just learning more about music.

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.