Quotes About Influence

Big Mike Meyer was my real dad as far as I was concerned.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

If I could be half of what Mike Sweeney was, I'll be happy with it.

When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.

Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.

I'm very influenced by Mike Leigh and the way that he always has these climactic confrontations, like in 'Secrets and Lies' and 'High Hopes,' in which the ensemble cast meets in one location.

What brought me to Bellator was Scott Coker, Viacom, and one of my good friends, Mike Kogan.

When I first became captain of the Indian cricket team in 2000, many well-wishers and journalist friends gifted me the classic Mike Brearley book, 'The Art of Captaincy.' I mean no disrespect to the book or Mr, Brearley, who I admire a great deal, but books or team meetings don't make you good captains.

Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'

My father-in-law, Mike Sherman, coached a long, long time, and he just said, 'Be true to yourself. Be who you are, and people will follow you.' And I found that way to work for me.

The DNA of AC Milan is something I have inside me.

AC Milan would never have been the same club without Paolo Maldini or Franco Baresi and they certainly would have never had the same amount of success.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.

Honduras in 2009 and Paraguay in 2012 were low-hanging fruit, small countries with outsized oligarchies, where mild reformers were easily dispatched.

When you give the government an inch, they take a mile.

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.

I'm not convinced that creative people have mentors because that's what makes them different; they just do their own thing. If anyone had tried to tell me how to go about something, I'd have run a mile. But I have certainly had a few influences in my life.

'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.