Quotes About Influence

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

I was the biggest Goldie Hawn fan, my entire life.

I probably have more friends from 'Twilight' than I've ever had in my whole life.

My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

Being on TV has changed my life because I get lots of free stuff!

My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

I hear you're supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I'm the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

I listen to the Beatles all the time - in my car, at the gym. The Beatles are still part of my life. And because of that, John Lennon - in life and in death - remains part of my life.

Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

For so long I just let people surmise what they would about my life and my choices, and other people have written books and told tales.

To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom