Quotes About Influence

You see what type of player I am, and you see a lot of that in leaders. Hopefully, you lead from the front and, first and foremost, play well.

I'm always going to be an actor first and foremost, but I certainly want to have a voice in the kind of work that I'm doing.

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

People are forged in the fire of their first political experience.

Don't forget, Stephen Stills and I had a band in Gainesville called the Continentals when we were 15. And, of course, you had Lynyrd Skynyrd in Jacksonville.

You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the person I once was.

I didn't want to be the bass player everyone forgot about.

'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.

I don't want to be forgotten or not have helped as many people as I can before I pass.

My family grew up in Florence. There I became what I am now, and those are things that cannot be forgotten.

Damn sure Dusty Rhodes is never gonna be forgotten, ever.

Long after Mae West is forgotten, her words will live on.

I want to be one of those guys that isn't forgotten once I'm done. That's my main thing.

Any form of art is political if you make it that way.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

Going to school and formal education wasn't all that impactful to me, but it was the people that I met at school that really made such a difference.

It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

Probably the most formative thing was at the age of four my Granddad took me fishing. That actually became a major part of the rest of my life.

What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.