Thomas Steinbeck Quotes

Don't let that 'mom' word fool y'all... Her being my biggest critic was the best thing for me, actually.

Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.

I'm sort of a father figure to a lot of these players.

Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Transformed people transform people.