Quotes About Impact

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

The biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it's not AIDS, it's electro smog.

The biggest thing is to give it back. You want to leave the game in a better situation than you came in with it. That's really important to me, especially being an avid reader and just learning about how to build businesses, learning how to make the most of the business you're in, the ins and outs of the relationships that you build as well.

After 'Nine Million Bicycles', I was sent bikes from all over the world. I got about 10.

The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

I want to be a billionaire, and then I want to change something in the world for real.

It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars - like really had the ability to do that.

I don't know what happens if they get bin Laden. I'm much more interested in what happens if they don't get bin Laden.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

I didn't get into politics so that I could take little bites around the edges.

The idea of being a role model is bizarre.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'Beach Blanket' was one of the most important experiences of my whole life. It's part of me.

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

The purpose of making a successful film is to blend entertainment with social content.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them.

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

I'm blessed to have a voice, and I'm going to use it.

To me, being a role model is awesome. It's a blessing.

Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.