Quotes About Impact

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

As the founding lead of the Google Brain team, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and now overall lead of Baidu's AI team of some 1,200 people, I've been privileged to nurture many of the world's leading AI groups and have built many AI products that are used by hundreds of millions of people.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

As a young Maori actor, I don't want to be seen as a child star; I want to be seen as a serious actor and an actor who can change the world.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

'Baahubali' has done to Indian cinema what 'Star Wars' has done to America.

When I was 9, I saw 'Star Wars,' and it set me on a path to where I am today.

I'm not a Starbucks guy. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, but I like to pay for the coffee of the other folks behind me in line. It typically costs me less than $10, and makes the other people feel good, but more importantly, it makes me feel so good, and random acts of kindness change the world one person at a time.

The act of being nice to somebody at Starbucks is actually a huge thing. It's a real change you can effect in somebody's life every day.

Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.

If you had a Starbucks that never sold coffee, you wouldn't keep the site open. It's not that we're abandoning sites, but we're saying, 'Let's go where there's HIV, focus our resources there.'

For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes?

Visaaranai' reflects a stark reality from which you cannot shut yourself out: that is its success.

The thing you don't realise is that every time you head the ball, your brain shakes. Every single time. Have you ever headed a ball badly and seen stars for a couple of seconds? That's your brain shaking. Let's be honest: that can't be healthy, can it?

Shooting Stars' changed panel shows a bit for ever, I think.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

There are a lot of stars I've worked with - big stars - who, when they walk on set, the energy just changes.

People had this idea about becoming rock stars packing stadiums instead of having the goal of becoming what musicians used to be in terms of how they would perform and connect people.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.