Max Cannon Quotes

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I feel it's our responsibility to keep our ear tuned to public discourse. There's a lot of noise out there, and our responsibility is to pick up on the themes and issues that work their way through all of society.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social causes, I marvel at their denial of the rules of their own trade.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it's really great for the issue.

There is so much going on in our country and in the world today... We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there? Well, I'm turned on by that kind of stuff.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

I have no message or answers to social questions.

I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.

Political culture has become popular culture.

With everything on 'PLL,' it's not just a show that's trendy that's going to tell you what to wear next week. They push the issues. They force families into conversation.

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.

We, as Yale students, pride ourselves on being bright, curious and engaged citizens. We are part of an institution that aims to educate its students to better the world. We tend to think that we do not fit the stereotype of ignorance and apathy that is all too often associated with America.

I think, when people think of NFL athletes, they forget that they are citizens of this country, that they are bothered by the problems that we all face.