Quotes About Influence

People's fates are simplified by their names.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

My intentions are I'm living my life and my life is created by my parents, my different experiences, my languages, my culture and, yeah, my kids do have very Spanish-influenced names.

Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.

If I were to give you a list of names of the people, world political figures, who have been assisted by the CIA, and even assisted to office around the world, you'd be astonished and probably wouldn't believe it. But it's very long, and the names are very distinguished.

There are so many artists that inspire me, it's honestly too many names to go through. I look up to people who've been in the game for years.

Mariah's fashion game is definitely on a different level than mine. She actually knows Roberto Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana. I didn't know those people actually existed; I thought they were just names.

It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

Whether you're choosing for yourself or for a character - or for a child - names have baggage of their own.

The role and the script are not the only factor to chose or do a film, but the names associated with the project also matters.

I don't particularly care to know the names of the people in the Freedom Caucus.

When audiences start calling you by your character's names, your job is done!

People like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez - these are probably all names that many people don't know, but they are very popular in the music industry. They were people that I grew up listening to and aspiring to be like one day.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

There's probably 30 or 40,000 domain names associated with my name. Very few of them I have had anything to do with.

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.

When I was 15 my great Aunt Nancy gave me a book of Alan Bennett plays, and I thought he was the bees knees.

I got a lot of respect for Nancy Pelosi. I love her. She was a mentor of mine.

Well, I think you do have to admire Nancy Pelosi.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

For my brother and I, Maureen was a key figure in our life. When we were little, we were probably closer to our nanny than to our parents.