Quotes About Influence

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

In the wake of Animal House, the stock briefly and quite wrongly shot up. So I love that movie.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.

A lot of the guys were like that - Oscar Pettiford - they just took me under their wing, and that's why I automatically help young people. I just love it, because they did that for me.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.

My whole thing is if it wasn't for people like ya'll and people like them I wouldn't be me. I love every minute of it.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

I am close friends with Marina Abamovich, so I love strong, very aggressive political art. She is like a mom who wants to adopt me.

Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.