Quotes About Engagement

Too many documentaries are intellectual exercises. I want documentaries to be alive.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

The thing about theatre is that when it is actually occurring, when you have the audience on your side, you absolutely think you can will them to do anything. It's exhilarating.

Live performances are exhilarating, especially when performing for a young crowd.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

I really have this desire to make it known that the Internet exists and YouTubers are important. And not only are YouTubers important, our followings are incredible.

If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists.

With social media, you take the good and the bad of it. You have to make the most of the opportunities. You can use social media to your benefit to expand your character and gets eyes on you and what you're doing.

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

Whenever there is a need to address an issue that has emerged and the U.N. is expected to deal with, we should be ready to do so.

I don't want to work in just any movie for money. I do films in seven languages so I am pretty busy to be out of work.

I do social media largely for work because I want to be a part of different activities. In India, that's how you make money, so I do it as my job.

One of the biggest motivators is to be part of something larger than yourself.

Larry and I didn't have two nickels together when we got engaged.

You need to have laser focus on doing your job.

The people you learn most from are the audiences, which is why I'm always best on my last night.

I had the opportunity at Duke to start doing things in the community, and it's something I continue to do even 20 years later.

The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

An easy way to get people to like you is to make them laugh.