Quotes About Engagement

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

I don't know a lot about politics.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

My parents are interested in politics.

If we ever get to the polls once, you will never get us home.

People often complain that celebrities after joining politics are not seen once the polls are over. But I am not like them. I would work for development.

People should show up and vote at the polls, unless there's an extraordinary reason not to do so.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

I'm not a big one for sitting by the pool doing nothing.

When I've been working especially long hours, I make a point to spend an extra hour or two without my phone, doing something my children choose. They love the park or pool time, but mostly, they love my undivided attention.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

I want an audience that we might call a pop audience. Cross over to pop. Cross over to R&B. And bring those people to Brubeck and Chick Corea, you dig? A lot of people found Dave Brubeck and Chick Corea because they came to hear 'We're in This Love Together' and 'After All.'

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

I love pop culture. I love sports. I love entertainment. The fact that I get paid to be a part of this is like, 'Woah.'

There's a lot of crossover between comic fans, wrestling fans and pop culture fans.