Quotes About Impact

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

If people learned what they were contributing to every time they ate meat, eggs, or dairy, surely they would be just as motivated as I was to change.

Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.

I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the surface, bubbling away, are lots more important questions that you're not really aware of, and when you leave the cinema, your mind is ablaze with different thoughts!

Sight by Jessie Greengrass was put up on Instagram by an acquaintance, so no one actually recommended it to me personally and yet it had a profound effect on me. The book deals with the conflicting emotions brought to the surface when you are deep in the throes of your 'child-bearing' years.

There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.

We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambient as I am without it.

When I was a junior in high school, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. To see her struggle and go through chemo, radiation and surgery, and all those things made a huge impact on us as a family.

That always catches you by surprise, you know, the amount of inspiration, should you choose to, that you can give to people.

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.

What was so lovely about 'O.J.' and 'This Is Us' to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.