Quotes About Influence

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

I am pleased about making a comeback in Bollywood, but then I really cannot think about leaving South Indian cinema. Whatever I am today is because of South films, and I cannot give up on that.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.

I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.

When I speak everyone listens and that gives me pleasure - even Zlatan, who has got a strong personality. When I talk he listens to me and I explain why he has got to do this or that.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

We came from the '60s era, when we started and made so many hits. The song value from the '60s was so darn good, you've got The Beatles, The Beach Boys, all of Motown, and plenty of other people, too... amazing records, amazing songs.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

My music pulls from flamenco plenty; it wouldn't make sense without that genre. I also have a lot of love for flamenco and I'm very happy if I can be an ambassador for it.

I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.