Quotes About Engagement

You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you're quite sure what it's revealing, and then you perform it.

One thing I can't stand is when people - not our team, but other people - don't respond. Everybody can email, everybody can text... using an email auto-response is not the world we live in.

Just because #ad or #spon is there doesn't mean I'm only doing it for money. I make sure, in the text, that it's very obvious that I'm having fun.

It is fair to say that I am generally very bad at keeping in touch - with everyone. When I read a text, my brain seems to think that I have replied to it, and so I am often genuinely surprised when people tell me I haven't.

People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.

What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

I don't think I am that person who can just text people for the heck of work. I should be invested in that person otherwise I won't.

Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.

What most infuriates me is the cell phones. If I see someone texting during the show, I walk off the stage.

I hate it when I see people texting at a show. And talking to each other. They're at a performance; they should respect the performer.

I think when you're starting up a situation, it's really fun texting or BBMing or whatever.

I've always been a texting advocate.

I am always texting!

A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they're not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.

The easy way to make your texts sexier? Lose the question marks.

I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.

Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.

A lot of times, you finish a movie, and you're either going, 'Oh, thank God, that's over,' or 'Oh, my God, it's over, and I don't want it to end.'

Men tend to listen in what I call a reductive way, which is to say for a point, for a solution. You know, we like to have a problem and solve it. Bang. Thank you very much. On to the next thing.