Quotes About Impact

We're forfeiting our power if we succumb to apathy.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

When I started doing television, I had no idea that people were watching it. But then things opened up for television in such a way that it's no more 'small' screen, as it is called.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

I just hope I reach out to people and connect to people in such a way that they continue to support what I do.

I want to stay hungry. I really believe my resources are best used to help projects that make the world suck less.

Having people remember something that you did 25 years ago doesn't suck.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

You want to bring it every day. But if you have a bad day in the theatre, a couple of hundred people see it. That sucked; we'll get back to it. You have a bad day on film, it's just on DVD for the rest of your life.

Any man can take a sucker punch, but if you get slapped, it's other repercussions to that.

Social entrepreneurship is like a butterfly, sucking honey from a flower, but the flower won't die. They're helping the flower to make pollination.

In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.

With all of my films if I get one bad review and a bunch of good reviews the bad one is the only one that will stay with me, which really sucks!

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

You went into the business to change kids lives and all the sudden you forget.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before.

When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.