Dawn Steel Quotes

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

When you learn that you inspired someone, it's a huge honor.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.

'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

I think the serious roles impact people the most.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

I believe that rock and roll can really make a huge impact on people's lives.

Often times people forget that every human has potential to change the world like Steve Jobs did.

As athletes, just looking at it from an outside perspective, it's really remarkable, the impact you could have on somebody that you have no idea.

When I think about power, it's not about having money. It's about changing people's lives, changing people's moods. To me, it's a blessing to have that power.

The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.

It's amazing what art can do.

It's an entertainment sport, and we go out to entertain the fans, but at the end of the day, what really matters is your influence on others.