Quotes About Influence

Don't get me wrong, The Beatles are one of our all-time favourite bands, but there's a lot more we were influenced by.

Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.

'The Godfather' has been a film which has influenced me a lot.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

I know I am an actor and whatever I say people are going to get influenced by that.

I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.

Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

Whether artists know it or not, I think we're all a little influenced by what came before.

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.

My grandfather influenced my brother, and my brother was my biggest influence.

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.