Quotes About Influence

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

Growing up I really loved Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, Fiona Apple, Everything But The Girl. I listened to a lot of really random things too that I would find by myself. I would find Minnie Riperton albums that I would fall in love with, also, a lot of old country records.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Along with my dad, my mother's pretty high up there. She's a star! Her interests are so diverse - she's an art collector and a sports enthusiast.

When I first met Salman Butt, he was a senior player, and he was a star for Pakistan, and I was a junior, but he had a very good image amongst the juniors. It wasn't that he was only nice to me: he was close to all the juniors, cracking jokes and socialising with them and being pleasant to them.

Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.

Indeed, follow your star if you want to head north and it's the North Star. But if you want to head north and it's Mars, you had better follow somebody else's star.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

The arrival of 'Star Wars' signalled the full absorption of the former counterculture into a new mainstream.

'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.

For me, when I was growing up, everybody I knew was a 'Star Wars' kid.

I place 'Star Wars' on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.

When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.

I was pretty lucky to have grown up during the 'Star Wars,' 'Indiana Jones' and 'E.T.' years.

Star Wars' was derivative of 'Buck Rogers' and 'Flash Gordon,' wasn't it?

When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you.

People keep saying I'm westernizing Chinese food. No I'm not. McDonald's, KFC, Starbucks, have done it big time, way before me.

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

Shah Rukh Khan's stardom always inspires me. His sensibilities, way of life and the way he does business, I love him for that.

Yet there are film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra who never allowed the mafia to dictate terms to them. But starlets like Monica Bedi used the mafia connection to win stardom and is now paying heavily.