Quotes About Impact

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.

Throughout the world, cancer affects the rich and poor, especially where cigarette smoking is rampant.

What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.

When a guy 275 pounds snaps, look out.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

I got my Gucci nails done for a photo shoot. After the shoot I would be on Snapchat and Instagram? and everybody was hitting? me up about i?t.? ?Eventually that turned into kids sending me photos of them getting Gucci nails.

I'm proud of my father, but my pride cannot be fully measured by that snapshot in history. Because contrary to first glance, my father's legacy comes not from his presiding over the final act in the drama of fighting for equal rights - his legacy is about setting the stage.

I try to sneak a bit of education into the entertainment. We don't preach to people, but we do try to give them very strong messages.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

The fact that you can even make a record and leave a document that you were here, that's nothing to sneeze at.

Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident.

I learned at 'SNL' that it's a bummer to bum people out.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

I remember seeing re-releases of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Bambi' in the theater very young. They had huge impacts on me, particularly the dark aspects.

I think very often problems are so big, people approach problems from the bottom up: 'If only I do this little bit, then hopefully there will be some sort of snowball effect that will be bigger and bigger.' I'm much more in favor of the top-down approach to problem-solving.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.

I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can hope for. I don't know if I'm comfortable being quote-unquote a leader.

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

I think when it comes to basketball, there's so many different ways you can affect the game.