Quotes About Involvement

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her school or a kids' improvisational thing. There are ways to do it where you're not on a movie set with 60 adults, which I loved at the time, but as a parent, I don't know that I'd be dying to put her in that spot.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

My mom was a pillar of support to my father in his theatre endeavors.

I did theatre when I was nine, I think. Nine and ten, and that was just the beginning of my whole involvement in acting, my whole interest. I don't really remember it that well. But it was really fun. I mean, it was exciting just to be on stage in front of an audience. It gives you a different kind of rush.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

People don't understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you've got to come locked and loaded, that you're a part of the experience, too. You can't come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.

Not much that happened on the beach got by Charlie Simmons. He was fourteen and his mother was the nurse who tended Winnie Banks, a lady with ALS who lived on the hill overlooking the beach. Charlie came to work with his mother every day. He hung out around the house, the town, the beach. He was, more than anything, a practiced observer. More observer than participant, something he'd change if possible. It

She talked to him everyday; she told him everything, rarely making a decision without having a conversation with him first. Even those decisions that had little to do with him, like what subject to choose for a paper she was writing.

Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.

El papa emérito Benedicto XVI augura un mundo en el que la Iglesia vivirá en pequeños círculos de fieles comprometidos que viven su fe intensamente y que tendrán que desgajarse de la sociedad de algún modo para aferrarse a la verdad. Lee este libro, aprende de la gente que te presento en él y déjate inspirar por el testimonio de los monjes. Deja que te hablen al corazón y a la mente e involúcrate

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

anyone ...on the scene...

Too often, leaders attempt to change the way people act without changing the way they think (i.e., their beliefs). As a result, they get compliance, but not commitment; involvement, but not investment; and progress, but not lasting performance.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

the reaction is disproportionate to the objective danger because some intrapsychic conflict is involved. Thus the reaction is never disproportionate to the subjective threat.

Absorption, being caught up in, wholly involved, and so on, are used commonly to describe the state of the artist or scientist when creating or even the child at play. By whatever name one calls it, genuine creativity is characterized by an intensity of awareness, a heightened consciousness.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.