Quotes About Influence

The people you end up hanging out with are the people you become.

If I'm just hanging with all stars and people with money, you can get lost and caught up. You get to moving like you got it made and you get to spending. That's how a lot of people go broke.

I had the world's greatest childhood. I used to hang around by the batting cage and have Hank Aaron ask me how my Little League team was doing.

I've known Daryl Hannah for 20 years. She's kind of a friend of the family. Anyway, I've been hot for her ever since 'Blade Runner.'

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.

I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.

People who think my dad is a bully, you should probably just hang out with him for a day and see what happens.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

People have asked me why are Australians and Brits so good at American accents, and it's quite simple. We grew up listening to the American sound on our TV. That's why American actors have a hard time with foreign accents.

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.

I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

When you have hardcore fans of something like 'Miranda,' people can't see you any other way than Gary Preston, which is fair enough.

I was raised by a hardcore feminist.