Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

Leadership is influence.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

I don’t get bored.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

My music is influenced by L.A. culture.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the ’60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.