Quotes About Influence

My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

A lot of my friends who were really sporty in year 7 and 8, in years 9 and 10 they stopped playing. It was a shame.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

Of course a magazine is shaped by its editor, and each editor is different.

I didn't choose to come to the United States, but being raised here has shaped exactly who I am today, and I can't imagine that being taken away from me.

Seattle has shaped me in a lot of ways.

I read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things.

The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

When I look back at the people who shaped me, that made a difference in my life, most of them were women.

Scotland was home to me from when I was 12 up until I was 22. I decided to drop my English bit, and when anyone asked where I came from, I always said Scotland. It really shaped the fibres of my being.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

Who you seen on screen shapes who you are.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.