Quotes About Engagement

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.

I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.

Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.

My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

I wasn't a washout before, and I'm not a phenomenon now. I'm a player who, when he's called upon, is almost always there.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

I feel really lucky. There wasn't a doubt in my mind when Phil asked me to marry him.

I always tell Phil we're like the party poopers. If we ever get invited to a player party, between the two of us, we're like the downers. Like, 'Put down that beer!' Or, 'Should you really be eating those nachos?'

I live in Philadelphia, and my wife and I do a lot of theater out in the Philadelphia community.

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

I'll get involved in philanthropy.

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice.

Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.

People just want to dig; they want to dance. They don't want to work all through the night, and neither do I. I like getting 'out there,' but communication should be occurring on more levels than heavy-laden philosophical.

When a guy comes unofficially, then he, to me, is sending you a message that, 'You know what? Hey, I'm interested in Clemson.' Now, he may hate it when he gets here. But at least he came on his own. That's just my personal philosophy.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

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

I don't do things lightly; I don't take a job then just phone it in - I've never done that.