Quotes About Influence

I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not.

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

Schools insist that everything is under their purview - what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground.

You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

When I was a kid, I got a bob because all of the other girls on my soccer team with straight hair had one, and so I wanted one. Now I know girls with thick, curly hair should not get bobs. My hair was like one big circle.

Being in the thick of things is a good thing.

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It's not fair to look for role models in them.

I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

When people told me that 'Polladhavan' was a remake of 'Bicycle Thieves,' I wanted to laugh because comparing 'Polladhavan' to 'Bicycle Thieves' is a disgrace to the latter.

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

It's absolutely disgusting how these reality stars think they can get fat and then thin quickly for money.

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.'

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two.

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.

When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.