Influence quotes

“I'm a bad guy because I sing some rock-and-roll songs, and who's a bigger influence, the President or Marilyn Manson? I'd like to think me, but I'm going to go with the President.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“The truth doesn't always win friends, but it certainly influences people.”
Robin Williams - Batty Koda

“Real power comes from undetectable influence.”
Ray Winstone - Dreykov

“The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Mark Zuckerberg

“I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.”
Jeff Bridges

“A great teacher has little external history to record. His life goes over into other lives. These men are pillars in the intimate structure of our schools. They are more essential than its stones or beams, and they will continue to be a kindling force and a revealing power in our lives.”
Rahul Khanna - Older Deepak Mehta

“Your sexy little smile is not gonna work this time.”
Lisa Banes - Bonnie

“You and SpongeBob were my biggest influence ever!”

Kyle Mooney - Don Atari

“I don't know how else to put this: Make sure they remember you.”
Woody Harrelson - Haymitch Abernathy

“- Kathie Moffat: I'm running the show, don't forget it.
- Jeff Bailey: I doubt you'll ever let me.”
Jane Greer - Kathie Moffat
Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey

“I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.”
Dominique Swain - Lolita

“Use your influence. If you haven't any, beat her.”

Roland Young - Mr. Cosmo Topper

“- Lord Cadogan: Don't be impertinent, Liddell!
- Eric Liddell: The impertinence lies, sir, with those who seek to influence a man to deny his beliefs!”
Patrick Magee - Lord Cadogan
Ian Charleson - Eric Liddell

“Maybe 'the media' is manipulating you!”
James Franco - Dave Skylark

“When you deal with dark, dark gets in you.”
Jeff Bridges - Master Gregory

“- Dewey Finn: The first thing you do when you start a band is talk about your influences. That's how you figure out what kind of band you want to be. So who do you like? Blondie?
- Marta: Christina Aguilera.
- Dewey Finn: Who? No. Come on. What? You, Shortstop.
- Leonard: Puff Daddy.
- Dewey Finn: Wrong. Billy?
- Billy: Liza Minnelli?”
Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Caitlin Hale - Marta
Cole Hawkins - Leonard
Brian Falduto - Billy

“I don't care what your secrets are. But I can't go ahead without more confidence in you than I've got now. You've got to convince me that you know what this is all about, that you aren't just fiddling around, hoping that it will all come out right in the end.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“The American people are conditioned by network TV, by local news, to believe that their communities are much more dangerous than they actually are.”
Arthur A. Busch - Himself

“Life might be seen as a virus infecting the perfect organism of death.”
Ben Whishaw - Doctor

“- Katniss Everdeen: So you're here to make me look pretty.
- Cinna: I'm here to help you make an impression.”
Jennifer Lawrence - Katniss Everdeen
Lenny Kravitz - Cinna

“Drop by drop, Holmes. Drop by drop. Ah, in a way I'm almost sorry. You were a stimulating influence to me but it was obvious that I should win in the end.”

Lionel Atwill - Professor Moriarty

“- Mark Zuckerberg: I'm just saying I need to do something substantial in order to get the attention of the clubs.
- Erica Albright: Why?
- Mark Zuckerberg: Because they're exclusive, and fun, and they lead to a better life.”
Jesse Eisenberg - Mark Zuckerberg
Rooney Mara - Erica Albright

“Soon I'll have reached out to and influenced more people than anybody in the history of this planet, save God himself. And the best he ever managed was the Sermon on the Mount.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

“Drinkin' under age, drivin' without a license, now vandalism. You're a bad influence, Stoney.”
Joseph Mazzello - Charles

“- Suicide Blonde: I'm a bad person. I don't wanna make you bad.
- Fingerling: You don't have that power.”
Lynn Collins - Suicide Blonde
Jim Carrey - Fingerling