Quotes About Influence

I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself.

I'd bite off the Beatles, or anybody else. It's all one world, one planet and one groove. You're supposed to learn from each other, blend from each other, and it moves around like that.

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

That's all I've ever wanted to do is to feel like what you're doing moves someone, and that ultimately, maybe they can make a different choice in their life that may be better, right?

I want to be inspired, and I want to hopefully do work that moves people as well.

You don't grow up with Hulk Hogan as your dad and not learn a few moves.

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

'Be Cool' was a defining movie for me.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it in my mind forever.

There is a scene in the movie with DJ Cutkiller, one of the biggest European DJs from France, and he was scratching like crazy. When I saw that, I was 14, and I was like, 'Yo that's what I want to do. That's crazy.'

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

If you were in Clint Eastwood movies, you were in the Clint Eastwood movie business. You weren't in the movie business. You weren't part of Hollywood. This became clear early on; people stopped calling. They automatically assumed I was working exclusively with Clint.

My mom wasn't a movie star.

Life is too easy when you're a movie star. People will do anything you want and get you anything you want.

When I was a kid, my heroes were not baseball players nor movie stars. My knights in shining armor were film critics.

Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.

My first movie I saw when I was a kid was 'The Jungle Book.' I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation.