Quotes About Impact

Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.

'Birdman' has kinda... changed things. I'm not saying you won't see traditionally made movies any more. But I've had meetings with directors, and they've said it makes them rethink everything. You can hate this movie, but you have to talk about it. It's going to go down as one of the most interesting movies ever made.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

I think the killers get far too much attention.

You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.

I paid too much attention to boxing. I wanted to try professional boxing. That's why I didn't focus on wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and it hurt me.

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.

You get these moments in the ring that live forever. That's what Muhammad Ali accomplished, and I hope that I have, too.

Muhammad Ali was the greatest of all time. But what made him even greater was what he did outside the ring.

Black, white, Chinese, it don't matter - I've been told by multiple people that I'm very inspiring to them, and it makes them want to achieve whatever they can achieve.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

I've been dropped on my head multiple times.

Too many of our teachers are working multiple jobs - and it's still not enough.

I think I can contribute to the team in a multitude of ways.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

I left influencing the media to other members of my family, like my Mum.

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.

I have done 'Mumbai Meri Jaan,' 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!;' they are not comedy. But those roles didn't stick with people. Comedy films run, even though some of them are bad films. So people see these more.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

Whether we realize it or not, we benefit from the work of public-sector employees and our state, county and municipal governments every day.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'