Quotes About Being Involved

#1. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

Sheryl Crow

#2. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Frank Ocean

#3. I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#4. I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

Constance Zimmer

#5. I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.

Clive Davis

#6. The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Ciaran Hinds

#7. I had always dreamed of being involved in a job where I could do anything related to animals and nature. A vet maybe. But later I came to understand that it was just a temporary interest and that music was more important to me.

Tarkan

#8. I like being involved in businesses where you are kicking ass.

Mark Cuban

#9. I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.

Joe Mauer

#10. If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.

Peter Jackson

#11. Being involved and hanging out with my brothers who skate is really amazing, especially because of our age. I mean, we're in our mid-late forties and we're still skateboarding in competitions. Who'd have ever thought?

Christian Hosoi

#12. I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Ellen Ochoa

#13. My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

Jonathan Brandis

#14. I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

Brendon Urie

#16. Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

Terence McKenna

#17. 'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.

Chris Carter

#18. It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

Adam Schlesinger

#19. I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

Clive Owen

#20. To panic at the prospect of being involved in what your dream seem to indicate is normal

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Get down to your local swimming pool or your local swimming club, join up and see what it's like. I can guarantee that you're going to meet some great friends. Just being involved in water makes me happy and I'd like to see that transferred across to other people.

Liam Tancock

#22. Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.

Eric Drooker

#23. What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

Herb Ritts

#24. Nobody could be an observer without being involved.

Toba Beta

#25. What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.

Kola Boof

#26. You mean beyond the obvious drawbacks of being involved with a self-proclaimed and unapologetic asshole?

Qwen Salsbury

#27. There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Bill Bright

#28. I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.

Joe Eszterhas

#29. Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.

Clarence Clemons

#30. I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

Ginger Rogers

#31. The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.

Brandy Norwood

#32. It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

Giada De Laurentiis

#33. Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

George Wein

#34. It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

Gordon Strachan

#35. I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

Tom Odell

#36. Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

Wayne Gretzky

#37. I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Brian McBride

#38. I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

Karen Gillan

#39. I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

David Bowie

#40. There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

Kevin Bacon

#41. Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.

Joy Bryant

#42. I've ... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

Dolly Parton

#43. I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

Michael Heisley

#44. I did a guest thing on 'My Name Is Earl,' and there is something about being involved in a TV show that's in the midst of its popularity that frees up the creative process.

Jon Favreau

#45. Why being involved in social media has had such a tremendous impact on me, is deeply connecting me with fans in ways that I never had before. I was connected with fans and I always appreciated the relationship I had with fans, but, through social media, it allowed a deeper connection.

Dwayne Johnson

#46. It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.

Quentin Crisp

#47. The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#48. For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

Joshua Bell

#49. You can be strong without being involved in every single civil war around the world.

Rand Paul

#50. I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts.

Henry Rollins

#51. Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#52. I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

Emma Caulfield

#53. I can't spell or do grammar, but I'm smarter and more serious than people think. I'm no featherweight when it comes to digging deep and being involved. So many stars I know do so much. It's our duty to give back.

Cher

#54. I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

Edward Norton

#55. For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Warren Gatland

#56. I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.

Heath Ledger

#57. Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Richard O'Brien

#58. I try to pride myself on being involved with the fans and taking pictures when they're asked for because I know I was that little kid one day that really looked up to stars like myself, and I try to give them that on my behalf.

Patrick Kane

#59. I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

Eric Holder

#60. You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.

John Corbett

#61. It has always been an irony to me that the 'religious right' has come under so much attack for being involved in politics when the black community has been doing it for hundreds of years. The Reverend Jesse Jackson is rarely, if ever, attacked for his involvement in politics.

Kay Coles James

#62. My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for being involved in 'Playboy,' or having been Hugh Hefner's girlfriend - I hate that. I like to show I can do other things and take on other challenges. That's my main motivation.

Holly Madison

#63. At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

El-P

#64. One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

Charlie Huston

#65. I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

Griffin Dunne

#66. Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

Tony La Russa

#67. Ravenwood ran a hand through his wavy chestnut hair, upsetting the careful work of his valet.

Or not. Given the popularity of the "frightened owl" hairstyle today, Amelia couldn't fathom much effort being involved at all.

Erica Ridley

#68. I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Juliette Binoche

#69. I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

Taika Waititi

#70. Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

Kenneth Anger

#71. Being involved and being committed are miles apart. In our world today, most people are relationally involved, but few are truly committed.

Craig Groeschel

#72. I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

Stone Gossard

#73. I'm just learning every day and I hope to continue that until the day I die. I'm just trying to learn and experience as much as I possibly can. I look at acting, at how I look at being involved in a job and living my life and prioritising.

Emma Stone

#74. Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

Luke Evans

#75. I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

Thomas Sadoski

#76. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Sonia Sotomayor

#77. Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

Jason Kidd

#78. The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

Jeffrey Pierce

#79. Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

Jared Harris

#80. Real victory of life lies in you being involved in more conversations and less monologues.

Ashutosh Gupta

#81. It's all about music, because music is basically what's ... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

Pitbull

#82. I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

Eleanor Mondale

#83. I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#84. The Spurs really are a family. They have a bunch of good guys that want to win, and the way they play is so unselfish. I'm looking forward to being involved in it. I feel that teams with players who are very close end up winning.

LaMarcus Aldridge

#85. Your favorite author? This was an important question. I'd dated men who had never read a book. Reading was a passion of mine and I couldn't imagine being involved with someone who didn't understand the importance of books and stories.

Debbie Macomber

#86. He'd always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being involved with him meant moving back here. Being surrounded by bad memories.

Leah Braemel

#87. Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process.

Julian Castro

#88. I was very fortunate that a teacher saw that I read a lot and got bored very easily and had a lot of energy, so she said, 'You've got to go to this youth theater.' I joined Manchester Youth Theatre when I was really young, and I just loved putting on and being involved in plays and telling stories.

Justin Chadwick

#89. Being involved with passion is one of the common characteristics I have observed in all the successful people I have come across.

Vishwas Chavan

#90. Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

J.J. Abrams

#91. There's nothing like being involved with a team that can go that distance.

Chuck Daly

#92. I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist?

Francesca Woodman

#93. I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Marianne Williamson

#94. Since being involved in 'Strictly Come Dancing,' my life has changed completely. I can't walk down the street without women throwing themselves at me, I usually wouldn't mind, but they are of a certain age. Hopefully, after this series, they will bring their daughters!

Anton Du Beke

#95. I actually think being involved in the cesarean would be ... I just can't wait!

Robert Pattinson

#96. You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

Paul Wolfowitz

#97. Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

Mark Canton

#98. I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

Nicolas Cage

#99. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#100. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.

George MacDonald