Quotes About Influence

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.

They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.