Quotes About Influence

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.

When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

You know, a lot of the people that are running. We want to go in; we want to have majorities. It's very important.

I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

I'm not necessarily one to be remembered as a great, great speaker in wrestling, but I want to share my feelings about the people who have influenced me over the course of my career.

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

I hate mice. The mouse involves you in arm motions that slow you down. I didn't want it on the Macintosh, but Jobs insisted. In those days, what he said went, good idea or not.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.