Quotes About Engagement

The audience can expect full-on entertainment from me.

Acting is a full-time job for me.

Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

First, I have to read something and find it interesting and like the story. If I don't understand it fully, but there is something in there that is interesting, then it takes a director to convince me. If he can't do that, then I don't go with it. It doesn't matter where the project comes from.

A computer doesn't have a mind of its own - it needs someone else's to function.

Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Look, fundamentally the more you know about someone, the better you can communicate with them at a human level, or a mass-communication-advertising level.

People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

I've always done party building and party fundraising.

I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, 'Death at a Funeral' made me laugh out loud.

I enjoy taking people on on Twitter, because often I'm cleverer and funnier.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

Someone asked me 'What's the funniest thing or what's the best thing that you've ever done?' It's always what I'm doing now.

His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind.

I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was just to get back into contact with life. I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine.

What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting.

When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are -- more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story -- one after the other. It is queer.

If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.

her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.

girl rattled on in her good-tempered, homely way, Mary began to notice what she was saying.

They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say, "Here I am — tell about me." But they did not — which was their fault and not mine. People who live in the story one is writing ought to come forward at the beginning and tap the writing person on the shoulder and say, "Hallo, what about me?" If they don't, no one can be blamed but themselves and their slouching, idle ways.