Quotes About Influence

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

I was in charge of the music in every team I played for, and that is a huge responsibility, believe me!

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading.

Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.

I found Hugh Hefner to be a charming gentleman.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

When I was in high school, I remember writing a research paper, and the teacher said I should write about Langston Hughes. I felt as if I was the only black dude who didn't like Langston Hughes. He didn't seem as dark and layered as someone like Flannery O'Connor.

There are so many great John Hughes movies covering so many different genres. You can pull so much from him.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

Hulk Hogan was my reason for getting into the business. He was this larger-than-life entity.

Hulk Hogan was a little different character. He wants to be Hulk Hogan and everything, which was good. I was proud of him and I helped him with what he needed to know and stuff like that.

When I was 5 years old, Hulk Hogan was the world to a lot of little kids.

'Spawn' was my favorite growing up, but I loved 'X-Men' and the 'Hulk' too.

John Cena is the man here. He's the Hulk Hogan of our era.

Most people would die to have Hulk Hogan as a dad.

Everything that happens in the life of a human being, especially artists, who are supposed to be more sensitive, yes, it can affect you. In Lebanon I saw 10- and 12-year-old kids walking around with guns, and I understood how much human actions affect people.

What the human being sees, what is poured into his environment, becomes a force in him. In accordance with it, he forms himself.

George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.