Inspired Me Quotes

#1. It has to be 'The Piano' by Jane Campion. It inspired me to pursue my dream to direct. It is not just my favorite woman-directed film - it is my favorite film.

Sarah Gavron

#2. Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

Matt Mullenweg

#3. College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

Larisa Oleynik

#4. Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

Thomas J. Sargent

#5. By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.

Eric Drooker

#6. The reality of growing up is we changed schools so many times, my brother was my best friend. We have a five-year age gap, and my brother inspired me. He started boxing, and I just want to show that I could do things better than him.

Wladimir Klitschko

#7. People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage ... ' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'

Iris Apfel

#8. There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't tell you if there's some hot new talent out there who everybody's aware of but I'm not.

DJ Shadow

#9. What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

Patricia Reilly Giff

#10. I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

Noah Baumbach

#11. Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world.

Nicholas Evans

#12. I've been in a long and happy relationship for 22 years and it's never inspired me to write anything. It's too good - nothing to say. Problems, conflict, that's what makes for good stories.

Emma Donoghue

#13. I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being.

Kenny Chesney

#14. Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

Ritchie Blackmore

#15. Happy people have always inspired me.

Marty Rubin

#16. Hugh Jackman really inspired me as a kid. He's a cool Aussie guy who works very hard, and he's a fantastic actor. Obviously, he keeps really fit. He seems like he's happy acting. Who knows if he really is, but he gives you that impression.

Brenton Thwaites

#17. I've been taking photographs since I was a teenager, and fashion has taught me a lot more about photography. It's definitely inspired me.

Daria Werbowy

#18. I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I've had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes - mountains and water and flowers and birds.

Renee O'Connor

#19. Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

Robert Parish

#20. When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my life; it inspired me; it made me feel good every time.'

Ledisi

#21. There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me.

Alfonso Herrera

#22. The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

Patti Smith

#23. My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Bailee Madison

#24. The Clash were the first big love of my life. Lyrically, they inspired me to get out, explore life, and maybe kick some doors down.

John Niven

#25. Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

Ben Carson

#26. It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother took me on walks and showed me birds and plants. She also took me out at night and showed me the constellations and the aurora.

Nancy Roman

#27. I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Johnny Weir

#28. My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

Tommy Hilfiger

#29. In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Rockwell

#30. I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

Adrien Brody

#31. Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident ... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

Elizabeth Edwards

#32. I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

Joseph Mawle

#33. Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.

Yelawolf

#34. The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.

Mike Krzyzewski

#35. So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.

Gayle Forman

#36. There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

Alfred Molina

#37. I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

David Nail

#38. In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.

Michael Franti

#39. I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

Eric Davis

#40. I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#41. I did not need him to survive. He inspired me to find that strength in myself.

Chrissy Moon

#42. The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show a side that we don't see.

Jamel Shabazz

#43. I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model.

Steven Bauer

#44. I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

Sebastian Coe

#45. You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

Scott Turow

#46. Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

Chuck Zito

#47. It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

Tom Odell

#48. Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Griffin Dunne

#49. I definitely want to play someone who's inspired me. I would love to play Aaliyah; it would be personal because I love her so much.

Keke Palmer

#50. Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects ... the list is endless.

Dries Van Noten

#51. Then I knew: this wasn't just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with how his looks inspired me; he was far more than a muse. With every stroke of pencil and crayon, I had drawn Will into my heart.
I was in love with him.

Sharon Biggs Waller

#52. Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.

Lesley Garrett

#53. George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics.

Andrea Tantaros

#54. 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.

Meryl Streep

#55. The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met.

Chet Baker

#56. I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Jenny Eclair

#57. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Aron Ralston

#58. I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me ... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

Marcia Gay Harden

#59. I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.

Halston Sage

#60. Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain.

Ronald Reagan

#61. I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

Viola Davis

#62. By putting my trust in God and my love in the alchemical transmutation, which working on my dreams leads me to, I was able to attract ideas, and those ideas inspired me to create something new. That which I created was a product, with value.

Daniel Marques

#63. Ultimately, we all have to decide what our own life is for. I will die one day, and, whether my day is near or far, I choose to look back on my time and know that I walked through the doors that inspired me.

Shaun Chamberlin

#64. The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.

Annie Lennox

#65. Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Donna Brazile

#66. I decided to go to Latin America because many of my students in Washington emigrated from this region and inspired me to learn more about their home countries.

Jenna Bush

#67. A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.

Stone Gossard

#68. What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

Joell Ortiz

#69. One person who has taught me a lot and inspired me a lot was Peter Falk. I was fortunate enough to have worked with him in this movie called 'Vig.' He brought my work to a place where it literally shouldn't have been for another two or three years.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#70. I'd say James Dean is someone that's really inspired me. Just the fact that he did only three movies before he died at such a young age, and yet everyone knows who he is. It really blows my mind.

Tye Sheridan

#71. I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

Amanda Lindhout

#72. Since I was 4, Julia Roberts has inspired me. I thought if I liked her enough, I'd become as pretty as her. That didn't happen, but I was obsessed and watched her movies over and over.

Martha MacIsaac

#73. Beggars inspired me with mingled feelings of love and fear. I knew that I ought to be kind to them, for they might not be what they seemed.

Elie Wiesel

#74. Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

Raf Simons

#75. A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

Jon Katz

#76. Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.

Daniel Hope

#77. I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Jeff Cooper

#78. I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

Paul Auster

#79. Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.

Andy Serkis

#80. In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

Twyla Tharp

#81. I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Robert Kiyosaki

#82. The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

Christopher Darden

#83. I'd always loved watching YouTube videos, and that's what inspired me to make them myself. Initially I was drawn to makeup tutorials - I learned everything I know about makeup from YouTube.

Zoe Sugg

#84. This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child ... .

Eric Zorn

#85. Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

Maria Sharapova

#86. I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

Trae Tha Truth

#87. I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

Nick Offerman

#88. The mentors in my life, inspired me to fulfill my highest potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#89. Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

Todd Haynes

#90. Because the Internet's there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words.

King Krule

#91. I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there. I think that inspired me more than what people were doing back home.

Danny Brown

#92. I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

Paul Watson

#93. If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#94. I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.

Jam Master Jay

#95. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Ruzwana Bashir

#96. 'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

Will.i.am

#97. When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.

Seann William Scott

#98. I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

Jay Duplass

#99. I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

Charice Pempengco

#100. My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

Steven Spielberg