Quotes About Impact

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I probably do more community service than any other professional golfer.

I'm glad I was part of history, here long after I'm gone.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

We're the leaders. Look around. Everything we do, we're gonna see everyone else try to do it.

When I finish contributing, I feel like I've left enough to where people are gonna say, 'They got that from Too $hort.' I'm not gonna fade away.

One scene is enough for a good actor to leave his mark in any film.

Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman?

We've always tried to be good citizens in the communities that we do business in.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

I am not about glamour, fame and all that comes with it, so now that people know me so much, I think I have a responsibility to give them back and set a good example.

Every once in a while, brave companies step out and act in ways that move customers and shareholders to also act in good faith.

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad.

At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.

You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.

Every good film is a bit like a dream, when you come away from it. That's what you should aspire to, rather than some social document. I want to create a little world that will stay with the audience.

When you do a good film, it will remain forever.

I don't think a film that has no effect on people or society is a good film.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.