Quotes About Engagement

People who are elected by the people need to remember they need to listen to the people.

I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop me on the street to tell me that they're into my music.

You can say something, make something, and be rewarded for it by the people you're speaking to.

I'll never say good bye to TV. I belong there.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

I'm always willing to help out when people have stories and they bring them to me. I also like the completely fun films like 'Patti Cake$.' My taste is, if it feels like it's something I'd like to see, then I'll get behind it.

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

I was the one who was always calling people.

It's no mean calling to bring fun into the afternoons of large numbers of people. That, too, is part of my job, and I'm happy to serve when called on.

Everybody's calling me out. Why do you think everybody wants to fight me? I'm the money fight.

It's like, when RuPaul calls, I answer.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

I would rather talk to a face than a camera.

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

Campaigning means talking to people in the street, it's important.

The reason why we have so many stars campaigning for politics is that when we senior artistes go to speak to people, they at least listen to some extent.

I loved campaigning.

It's not like I have campaigns, I don't want to be an activist or anything.

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing it down. You know, art - the more you know about it, the more you enjoy it.