Quotes About Influence

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

When you're a kid, you're just not equipped to deal with some of the stuff that life brings you. It's why you have parents. And then, when you don't, there better be somebody who fills in that gap, or you're going to be rudderless for a while.

Because the designers at Baby Gap and Crew Cuts have determined it would be cute if kids dressed like their dads, seemingly every American male between 2 and 52 dresses identically.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

If you put out garbage, you turn people into garbage.

You want to be leaders and you're black and I'm here to tell you how to do it. Disconnect from this social media garbage; disconnect from these celebrity athletes who don't really care nothing about you.

By being part of films like 'Judwaa 2,' I can ensure that I garner more fans, who'd then want to watch me in other powerful films.

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

Rocky Horror Picture Show' was my gateway drag/drug. I was somewhere between 13 and 16 when I started going to that.

We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.

Music has always been and will always be a strong gateway to connect with consumers in an emotional hot state.

Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should be a requisite - there should be a clause in the contract that you have to give back.

With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

We gave the world dab fever!

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Without gay men, I am nothing.

I have put gay dating on the map.