I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?'
— Yara Shahidi
Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
— Yair Lapid
I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.
Of course it's a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.
— Xherdan Shaqiri
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
— Xavier Dolan
I feel very comfortable with the system used by Mourinho. It's a very dynamic 4-2-3-1 that can easily change to 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1 depending on the moment or the team's needs. He really knows what he wants.
— Xabi Alonso
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
— Wynton Marsalis
Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
— Wyclef Jean
There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.
— Wyatt Cenac
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
— Woody Allen
In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing things during shooting. Because I worked as a scriptwriter for 10 years, I understood that directors always wanted to change what was originally written, to improve on it.
— Wong Kar-wai
A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
— Wolfgang Puck
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
— Winston Churchill
Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.
— Winnie Holzman
Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.
— Winnie Byanyima
Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.
— Wim Wenders
One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'
The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.
It's one thing to be bitter about something, but it's another thing to recognise the growth and the change that you made.
— Xzibit
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
— Xavier Rudd
Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions?
Everything can change in the Champions League.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.
— Woody Harrelson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
— Woodrow Wilson
Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.
— Wolfgang Tillmans
Amplifying atoms is more subtle than amplifying electromagnetic waves because atoms can only change their quantum state and cannot be created. Therefore, even if one could amplify gold atoms, one would not realize the dreams of medieval alchemy.
— Wolfgang Ketterle
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is like them in some way; people feel validated. Its not a little thing. It really means a lot to people. It actually can change people.
Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.
It sounds corny, but I wanted to be the change I wanted to see in the world. I used to have that on my notebook in school.
— Wilson Cruz
Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
I would never be a buffoon or an imbecile or a coon. I'm a strong brother that understands what I mean to this society, where I fit in this society, and how I can change this society.
A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.
I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
— Xavier Becerra
When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.
Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.
— Wylie Dufresne
I am not looking at my TV show to change the world.
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
— Woody Guthrie
The Chinese government promised Hong Kong '50 years, and change.' And 50 years later, after 1997, will be 2046; I think, 'Well, that's a very interesting promise.' So I want to make a film about promise.
Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.
— Wolfgang Schauble
My confidence never gets crushed. Whatever happens, my attitude doesn't change.
— Wojciech Szczesny
We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.
— Winona LaDuke
To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other.
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
