Quotes About Engagement

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

I want a politics that doesn't need to pretend to be holy or perfect or infallible. I want a politics that gets on with it.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.

Always come to a conversation armed with two drinks. Then if it's dire you can pretend you were on the way to find someone else. And if it's interesting, you can stay and down both glasses without moving.

I try to get into a headspace where I pretend like this is the first time Im ever hearing this song, and I get into that and I just try to discover it. I found that if I really put my head in that space then I can get into it. I can discover it all over again.

Like, I've had full interactions with fans as my brother and they don't notice. Pretending to be Dev is easy. I just act like myself except much louder.

I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I'm usually pretty good about knowing which of my social media posts will create more excitement, but every once in a while I'll post something and be totally surprised at the response.

You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.

If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.

In a play, a man comes out and says something. Another man comes out and says something. And by the end of the night, we've learned something we didn't know, In a musical, there is singing and dancing for two hours, but you've got to know everything in 5 minutes. Do it in those 5 minutes or you'll lose them.

Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

I think the danger in trying to set too many things up or do too much world-building in a movie so soon is you forget to actually make a movie.