Quotes About Influence

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.

My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

I know music is just powerful in itself and to have someone say the words that I sat down and wrote changed their life or made them feel a certain way, that hits something in you.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

I want to be an impact hitter. I want to be a guy that's in the lineup and he's an impact. I want people to be like, 'Arenado's coming up.'

As soon as you make anything that people like, you get all these new artists hitting you up like 'I want to sound just like Billie Eilish.' And I'm always like, 'Absolutely not.'

Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.

Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far - as much as a showman as he may be.

Anytime you got me hitting jump shots, you can't do nothing but feed off me.

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy stuff. Neither of them are into it. So I don't know where it comes from.

I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

My brother was playing hockey, tennis, badminton... I basically copied everything he did.

You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.

Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

I grew up on dancehall music, and it holds a strong place in my heart.