Quotes About Impact

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

Our society can only become one of two things, it can be become what we let it become or it can become what we make it, and I choose the latter.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

I went to law school to help people.

If I can be a leader, I will.

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go.

I don't think I will ever be erased from people's memory as I like to believe the work I do leaves an impact on people.

Cinema has a greater impact as it leaves a long lasting memory. Television, on the other hand, is also good but requires a lot of time.

All things change, but we always have to think: what are we leaving behind?

I care about making the game, the industry and the people I'm around better because I'm around. Ultimately that's what creates a legacy... But you have to be OK with making people mad because people don't like change.

Success can be a legacy.

Years down the line, when people look at my filmography, I'd like them to see a legacy of new-age content films.

You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care.

It's always great to add to your legacy.

I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

Scarface, I don't think, has done anything in his whole career to tarnish his legacy.

You want to leave a legacy.

My teaching is my legacy.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.