Quotes About Influence

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

I just don't like how the beauty industry became so much about money and so much drama-driven.

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

It is not inevitable that the Internet will evolve in a manner compatible with democracy.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Kamasutra shaped my career in every possible way. It enhanced the whole sexism quotient that I had come with. It made me famous and infamous.

Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.

I thought I was passionate about my work. Then I saw Shah Rukh bhai and Bachchan saab at work. Their spirit was so infectious. I felt I had so far been just fooling around.

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.

I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.

I was aware of the pressure of my mom and not just my mom but my entire family. I was very aware of that reality, so it was almost this inferiority complex.

A bunch of my fans have come up to me and said, 'Because of you, and because you came out, I have finally begun to accept myself.' That is infinitely incredible for me. I didn't expect to get to the point where I would own up to it within myself.

I want to inflict some change on people.

Affluence means influence.

I believe no chef becomes what he becomes without having many people influence him.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.