Quotes About Engagement

Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

I'll spend time playing 'Call of Duty' and 'Medal of Honor.'

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

No matter what a guy says, if he shows up at all the places you're at, he's hooked.

My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

'Badalte Rishton ki Daastan' has enough masala to keep the audiences hooked from day one. It is a proper family drama.

I was so hooked to 'The Da Vinci Code' that I jumped out of bed at 2 A. M., and could only go back to sleep after I'd finished the final few chapters.

I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

I'm a firm believer in trying to make something that might not be considered fun by a lot of people fun. And hopefully, that makes the person have a positive association with it, and they want to come back.

I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me.

What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

If we can get people engaged in the world around them in any form, in any way, that's a positive thing, and hopefully we can get them to come to the news more.

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.

What excites me, what attracts me, what gets me up in the morning is telling the next story and getting it out in front of readers and hoping they'll love it too.

I know the difference between someone coming up to you on the street and saying, 'Hey, you're that dude, right. Yes, that's what I thought,' and somebody coming up and saying, 'Big fan of the show. Big fan of that character.' And that's nice. You're out there telling stories, you're hoping to find an audience, and it's very appreciated.

I'm really hoping to find something that I feel as connected with as I did with 'The Florida Project.' I want to feel that passionate about things that I work on. I don't want to just act to act.

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that.

I'm hoping to raise a little consciousness and shine some light on the idea of responsibility.