Quotes About Engagement

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

The thing I really liked about the early 'God Of War' games was the idea that from the menu screen it felt like you went right into the game.

If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.

You can only gain the real intricacies of playing by playing. You can study the playbook all you want and you can ask as many questions, but until you're out there out of the field doing it, that's the only way is to mess it up, or do it right and cement and then learn from it.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

I would love to do a show at a Bon Jovi concert to get the people in that crowd. That's a good crowd to mess with.

I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I'm all for it.

In my case, the listener is often in an automobile driving to work. You can concentrate on the road while still getting an audio message that can be riveting.

I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.

I'm not sure a candidate ever feels his message is getting out.

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.'

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.

My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.

I'm the type of guy that's always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head's on the game.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

For 'Seabiscuit', I interviewed 100 people I never met.

The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.