Quotes About Presence

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

A.I. didn't ask me to do a bunch of stuff for him. He just wanted me around. Usually we were at the Friday's in Philly, which he should have bought, because he was there so much.

I start the day just with the family. I don't check emails until my commute, and I make sure my phone isn't close to me until I'm out the door.

I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

We're so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now. People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.

I don't like it when people remain glued to their phones while talking, so I have no apps on mine.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'

But every so often we'll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what's happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there's a really important moment. It's a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don't see a bunch of phones out.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

So often, we take photos on our iPhone, and then they're gone in a year, and we don't even remember them. I like to experience life and disconnect from that.

We live in the physical world, the age of the Internet, and it's very easy to disappear from view and isolate ourselves from the rest of world and become invisible.

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

I was so empty. I didn't always feel physically bad. I was able to play, but I wasn't there 100%. I felt I was fighting this strange feeling rather than the opponent; I couldn't really describe what was going on.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.

No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.