Quotes About Involvement

I want to be there for my daughter - when she falls, to pick her up. When she needs help with homework.

I took it upon myself to give back to my 'hood.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

What I'm hoping to do is see Democrats get elected. That's what I'm trying to contribute to.

You're watching your kids playing football, and you're not present. It's like the worst... it's horrible. I despise myself for it. I think it's a particularly male thing. Being present and in the moment with your kids is something a lot of men struggle with.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

My character at 'Mel's diner' was involved in betting on the horses and all that.

My zero-stress way to host a gathering: Make the guests do the cooking.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process.

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

You would think none of my brothers have jobs with how much time they spend on the phone with our mom.

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

It is humbling to be a part of 'Our Loved Boy.'

Matrices act. They don't just sit there.

when you join something, they expect you to do it. To"—he shuddered—"participate.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .

I'm not involved, not involved, I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about, and you gave him money and York Harding's books on the East and said, 'Go ahead. Win the East for democracy.' He never saw anything he hadn't heard in a lecture hall, and his writers and his lecturers made a fool of him.

She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.