Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.

I look at people like Helen Mirren, Emma Thompson, Goldie Hawn, they're the people I want to be.

I like Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster. Among Indian actress, I prefer Madhubala and Nutan.

Feroz Khan and 'Qurbani' are part of my life forever.

'Baahubali' gave me something that's really huge.

I would like to do films where I will be remembered after people leave the theatres.

We have lots of heroes today - sportsmen, supermodels, media personalities. They come, they have their 15 minutes of fame, and they go. But the influence of good teachers stays with us. They are the people who really shape our lives.

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

Cinema will always remember 'Life Of Pi.'

Rajini sir has always been a part of my life from childhood. And I entered into filmmaking because I was influenced by his films.

Zendaya - she's a boss - and Rihanna as well. I feel like those are two very powerful women.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

Most of the female 'superhero' role models of my childhood came from novels, and they rarely had powers. Take Dorothy, for example, from 'The Wizard of Oz;' or Laura Ingalls and her sisters in the 'Little House on the Prairie' novels.

Actors like Anushka Shetty, Nayanthara, Samantha Akkineni are great examples to look up to.

Debbie Allen and Regina King inspire me.

I'm not saying that maybe there isn't a kid out there whose behavior hasn't been influenced by me in some way. I'm sure there is. But I can only speak for myself, and if you'd asked if my behavior had ever been affected by people I'd admired from afar, like musicians or footballers, that'd be a yes, totally. Right down to their hand gestures.

Even if I were to try to imitate Kurosawa I know that it's absolutely impossible. That era of film was just something else, including the actors. Everything about that era was on a completely different level.

There is a wealth of fabulous actresses in England.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.