Quotes About Impact

Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?

You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.

I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.

Director Lee Chang-dong's 1997 noir 'Green Fish.' I was attending middle school when I first watched the piece. And although I could not completely understand the film and where it was getting at, I still found it extremely powerful.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.

I believe we've got to be able to make some noise to create change.

I know how to make noise; I really do. I'm really good at it.

A small number of people can make a lot of noise.

When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.

If I want to turn up to the NWA and cause some noise, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

You can take 200 people in a crowd of 10,000 and if they choose to be heard, they sound very loud. I'm talking fans scattered around the arena - if they're chanting the same thing, 200 people can make a lot of noise.

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

I actually run a nonprofit that's all about giving people opportunities to be their own heroes and do their own work.

Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.

I don't want to be responsible for messing up someone. I don't want to be responsible for that, because the things that happened in The Verve, it was heavy stuff. It was real. It wasn't just frivolous nonsense, you know what I mean? There was real people's lives.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.