Quotes About Influence

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.

Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

My mom is my biggest inspiration by far. She inspires me on a daily basis. I remember hearing her sing around the house, and I was like, 'Mom, you belong on TV. You're a superstar.'

At 18, I stood in the Louvre in front of the paintings that TV had first shown me.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

I feel very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama... I feel really excited that, at last, the novel has found its on-screen equivalent, because the emotional arcs and changes that you can follow are just so much more like a novel, and so many amazing shows recently have done as much as film can do to show the interior world.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?

Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

The reason I wanted to play guitar was because I saw Buddy Holly and then our own homegrown Shadows on TV in 1957 or '58. I wanted to learn to play guitar so I could do what they did and be in a band.

I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities. Bobby Flay is one of my dearest friends and a tremendous mentor for me. Mario Batali is the same way. They began doing TV a little before me and they showed me the way.

Side note: When I dressed up like Harley Quinn on TV a long time ago, everyone was like, 'Who is that?' And now she's got an entire merchandise line.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

Bullying is bullying, man. Even the biggest of the bullies got bullied. And what was happening in school comes from the media, innit? It comes from TV and society.

My first exposure to TV, film, theater, the idea of what acting was, is I was a little kid, and my mom's best friend was a local casting director in Cambridge, Mass. Her name was Patty Collinge.

It doesn't matter what we post about ourselves on social networks or how many times we play live TV, even. It's all about those people, those fans who are telling other people about us.