Quotes About Involvement

I was on the board at my children's school in Phoenix: I was Mr. Daddy Daycare.

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

There's absolutely no reason at all that physicians, scientists, shouldn't be involved in things that affect all of us.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I've always been involved in music. Whether it be taking piano lessons or something, I always have.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why you're there and all that stuff. It's good to know something. I like to know, but I've never been one of these, 'Just show me my stuff,' no, I like to know what the whole picture is so I can understand how I fit into it.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

My fingers are always in every single pie.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.

My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.

I want to play. I want to be on the pitch.

I try to be a player who is there for the team, even off the pitch.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.