Quotes About Engagement

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

I'm always for constructive conversation, meaningful conversation, not just words, but conversation.

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.

I am a people's person. I consume people.

We want people to watch and consume what we do, but we are not trying to sell anything. So that does give us a freedom in a way.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

I don't know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.

I always wanted to work on the consumer market; I always wanted to work with people.

I'm a big consumer of media and content online.

We are trying to speak to the consumer by their lifestyle.

For all we are a manufacturer, we've always had a lot of communication with the consumer.

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

We need to be much more robust consumers.

I have dabbled in management but I found it a little too all consuming.

I think when you make something that is non-mainstream and people don't have automatic way of consuming, like you don't have a big star, or a hit song or marketing money then you need to find some way to make audience aware of your film.

I think that's the most interesting part about social media these days. You have such direct contact with anybody and everybody.

Contact is in my nature.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!