Quotes About Influence

I shop at the market, and that informs what I make.

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.

The time I spend with my kids informs every fiber of who I am.

Honestly, I think, as an artist, it's everything that's in your life that informs what you do. So, obviously, growing up in Cleveland has played a big role in how I see the world.

What happens off-screen definitely informs your performance on screen.

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

Everybody's past and history informs them.

It's impossible to leave our emotions and experiences outside the work place - they inform us and make us who we are.

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

I did have a lot of years watching and appreciating dance and theater and all of those kind of things, and it has informed the way that I work with actors and the way I approach things.

Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.

It's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world.

I grew up on hip-hop and crate-digging and those sensibilities are deeply ingrained in me.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

How can I tell if I was born hating coconut or developed a hatred of coconut because my father distrusted it as an ingredient?

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

I was the eldest of five children, and although I never saw myself as any kind of leader, as the eldest, like it or not, you have some power inherent in that position.