Quotes About Influence

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

My family is my biggest critic.

My dad never really played basketball, but now he's my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: 'Why didn't you shoot there? Why didn't you drive?'

I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.

Rahul is my greatest critic; I look up to him. At 40, I'm fit, and that's because of Rahul. If I'm neglecting my health, he's the one to catch hold of me.

I think the idea of getting money out of politics is critical.

I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.

I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.

In the corporate media, there is almost no criticism of corporations or American empire.

It's scary to criticize Beyonce in this country. People take their Beyonce very seriously.

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing my next bit of work.

I think I'm a crossover athlete to get the sport into the mainstream media.

There have been a lot of crossover with celebrities and politics but to me, I don't think I would go into politics.

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.

The future belongs to crowds.

Crowds can play massive parts in games, we all know that.

I really didn't put myself around the wrong crowds.