Quotes About Influence

I think the big studios shaped and formed the artists that they put under contract.

The fact that Disney bought Maker Studios doesn't really change anything for me.

Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

A lot of my friend's mothers and parents worked at Paramount Studios, so I would always go. I met the Fonz when I was really young, like four or five years old. I was always around people in entertainment all the time throughout my whole life.

There are studios out there and we have met them who take the movie away from the filmmaker and don't want them to have input. But that's not with Marvel.

As engineers, we were going to be in a position to change the world - not just study it.

Often I've had problems automatically bending to a lover's will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, 'This is what I love!'

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.

I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

When I was studying at The Lawrence School, Sanawar, Sanjay Dutt came to our school as the chief guest on the Founder's Day. He is an alumnus of the school.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide.