Quotes About Impact

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

I'm not saving lives.

I thought it was a really good thing to be a part of giving blood and saving lives.

One rose says more than the dozen.

An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

The Internet empowers people to have a direct impact on an emergency situation on a global scale.

What changed after 'Scam' on a bigger level was the way the audience and the makers started looking at me as an actor.

I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.

Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.

The scariest movies, to me, are like Michael Haneke's 'Amour.'

If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

When you score in the first minutes, everything changes.

I want the score to have a really big voice.