Quotes About Influence

All I can do is be myself, do what I do and if people find inspiration then that's great but it's not what I'm setting out to do.

From my mother to people that I've known in my lifetime, they've tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I'm trying to do the same thing to my man Trump.

A fully fit Arjen is capable of settling a game by himself.

We believe that when there is a democratic setup, we have a greater voice.

I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement.

I was really into Michelangelo in seventh and eighth grade.

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are. It's all pretty similar reasons why they're big.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as a career.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

I don't listen to Drake. That's not a shade to Drake. I don't know who Drake is for, but it's not for me.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

I've never felt like I was in my mother's shadow. If anything, I felt like I was in her embrace.

I'm quite different to my brother. As kids, I was his shadow - I always wanted to do things with him. I'm sure I cramped his style a little.

It's true that there was a lot of influence from 'Tenchu.' We even pondered making 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice' a part of the 'Tenchu' series at first.

I guess I kind of have been known as the guy that shakes up girl groups.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

Now, when I talk about Shakespeare, I can't talk too much about Gielgud or Olivier. Because nobody knows who I'm talking about.

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.