Quotes About Influence

I think because of social media and YouTube things are changing. Today people have a judgement about films.

So, one of the biggest things about YouTube versus any other platform is the built-in audience and discovery tools.

I'm really happy that YouTube is as complete and successful as it is, to the point where, when things do go wrong, they'll hear about it from every direction.

Well, I already had a YouTube account before I became addicted to makeup.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

Ronaldinho was a big influence on me, watching him on YouTube, he used to do things that other people didn't really used to do.

Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.

People started hitting me up on Twitter cuz I was getting millions of views on YouTube and WorldStarHipHop.com and they saw me on MTV with Soulja Boy.

I was doing nuclear med I didn't like it. My first semester I switched to film major. YouTube helped make that decision for me.

When I've stopped doing workouts and YouTube videos, I want this content that I've created to be used in schools all around the world. This is what I want to be remembered for.

YouTube has a hundred engineers who are trying to get the perfect next video to play automatically. And their techniques are only going to get more and more perfect over time, and we will have to resist the perfect.

I always thought of YouTube as this super-finite thing where trends ebb and flow.

I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I had had good jobs and bad jobs and was fairly secure in my identity and understood who I was. When my audience or the algorithm wanted me to be something, I knew with a fair amount of certainty whether I wanted to be that thing or not.

I threw myself into the only thing I ever felt passionate about, the only thing that has ever saved my life, which is YouTube.

I was acting long before I began making videos on YouTube. But without the platform, would people have paid attention to what I had to offer in quite the same way? I don't think they would have and I think what we pay attention to now has been shaped by social media.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

The books that really made an impact on me were not set in New Zealand. Some were New Zealand novels, but the New Zealandness of them was not what carried me or excited me.

My dad was my hero when I was a young boy. And then it's a toss-up between Han Solo, the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, and Marlon Brando.

There's probably a tendency to view power... to be either based on size or the size and power of your economy. I think New Zealand's strength has always been using our voice on the issues that matter, and we've been consistent on it. There is power in that.

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

In Hollywood, you kind of trick yourself into feeling like you have impact.