Quotes About Influence

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

I try to do my best to differentiate each fella, each spirit, from the next one... and once it's exorcised it doesn't just go away. It becomes a part of you. So every role becomes a part of you.

System of a Down is my lifeline. It'll never go away.

The Go-Go's were like my first babies.

We were constantly together. Anybody who had a boyfriend had to go through the Go-Go's first. It was a little too close for comfort after a while.

I went to my first go-go when I was in, like, sixth grade.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

'The Godfather' changed my life, for better or worse. It definitely made me have an older man's film career when I was 29.

'The Godfather' is the talismanic giant that hangs over everything in the gangster genre.

Let me put it this way: if 'The Godfather' hadn't been made, 'Sarkaar' wouldn't have been made. That is the truth.

Mani is not just my Godfather. He is almost like a father to me.

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

I don't think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

We are making gods out of global celebrities.

Growing up as a young chef, the cookbooks I had, and I remember, were the Roux brothers. The Roux brothers for me back then - and now! - you know, it's like gods of cooking.

We're basically TV gods.

One girl said when I won my gold that was what inspired her to do boxing. She was only 12, and that is the same age I was when I first started.

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

I didn't want to go to Golden State. I didn't want to go back in Steph's shadow.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.