Quotes About Influence

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.

It's not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can't because they're afraid. I say it for them.

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

I realized afterwards that Mountbatten thought I'd be good for my husband. He was our Cyrano de Bergerac.

People buy into my agenda. I don't buy into anyone's agenda.

I took on the leader of the globalist agenda, the leader of the Republican Party, the Koch brothers.

It should be clear to everyone what happens when the populists can set the agenda.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

Sometimes it is difficult to understand why some players have certain agents.

What I want is to be well-respected around all ages and all around the world.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

I grew up listening to so much different pop and stuff other than just aggressive music.

I think a lot of people don't understand how deep AI already is in so many things.

I only aim at the powerful.

I like Al Purdy.

You can't take a kid from north Alabama and growing up in church - some of that is just gonna seep out.

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.

You can't make somebody buy an album. I buy people's albums though.