Quotes About Involvement

But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

When I left 'American Morning' in 2007, I'd focused on doing documentaries. But I thought 'Starting Point' was a great opportunity to be involved in the zeitgeist.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.

I'm mainly a dancer, but I've been offered to write songs on albums this year, and that's really cool. I never thought I'd get to do that. It's out of my comfort zone, but I loved having that input. It makes you feel more involved, when you have that creative control.

I grew up playing games like 'War Zone' and the old 'Smackdown,' so I'm very excited to see myself in a game.

'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.