Full Engagement Quotes

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

I really feel like you shouldn't make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

I always give my 100 per cent.

Drew's a funny guy. Because anything he gets into, he gets in 100%. Even when we were doing 'The Drew Carey Show,' he got into bowling, and suddenly he's phoning up pros for tips and carrying around 3 balls. It's just how he does it.

I am a lifelong student, and anything I do, I'm all in.

I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.

There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions. If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.

It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

When I take on something, I take the whole thing on. It's not even a question of separating, "Oh, am I going to be naked?" If you know you have to do something in life, for me, I go with my whole person.

Practice being in the present. Do what you're doing 100%.

Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Whenever I work on a project I put all of myself into it.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcasting is something I'm looking at long-term.

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

I don't want to be a bit-part player, I want to be right in the mix with everybody else.

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.