Quotes About Influence

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

When we export energy, we export American influence overseas. As I travel around the world, I know that there are people that want to buy energy from America.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

Wouldn't it be interesting to take Elvis back to his Sun Records period? I don't know. But I'm content to listen to his Sun Records. I don't want to dig him up out of the grave.

The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.

Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.

I especially cannot imagine anyone who grew up during the Cold War era listening to Donald Trump and saying, you know what, that's a guy that I want to support. It makes zero sense.

Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.

It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.