Quotes About Impact

The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world—an average of 89 per 100 people

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

I'm just one generation between someone who cheered when Germans were burning and someone who doesn't even know that there is a border. That's a miracle - really is a miracle - and it gets me really emotional.

I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?'

I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.

'Black Mirror' was amazing.

Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.

Recessions are never good for anyone. A sputtering economy means miserable financial, emotional, and physical-health consequences for everyone from infants to retirees.

People will come up, and they'll talk about 'Misery.' But a lot of people will talk about 'Waterboy.'

'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'

I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society that will change the system of inequity, not one person's misfortune.

Sometimes being away from TV for four months or six months or whatever it's been can really help you. People miss you and are happy to see you back. On the other hand, people can forget about you.

We have become used to the missiles being among us. We don't think about what they can do.

Why should I miss anything? The whole world is missing me.

Missing even one night of shuteye will impact your ability to concentrate the next day. And it only gets worse if you deprive yourself of sleep night after night.

I thought after that fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, if this was supposed to be fight of the decade, then people must be missing me a lot more.

Our job as vets and role players is when you get your opportunity make the coach realize what he's missing out there.

But I'll never write another Missing You' again as long as I live. I hope that I'll write a good song, but I don't think that I'll be able to write another song that will reach people that much.