"To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me"
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That’s the subtext of modern fame: attention is currency, but it also comes with an invoice. In an era when actors are expected to have opinions on everything from elections to climate disasters, opting out reads as privilege; leaning in risks backlash. Phillippe’s phrasing reads like a bridge between those pressures. It suggests a desire to graduate from tabloid visibility to something like civic adulthood, while acknowledging that engagement is as much an identity choice as a moral one.
The emotional resonance lands because it’s relatable in a distinctly 21st-century way. “Awareness” is the baseline virtue of the internet age; “involvement” is the harder step that exposes you to critique. He’s naming that gap. The appeal isn’t righteousness, it’s agency: the promise that being informed and present might feel better than being passively consumed, whether by media, by career demands, or by the endless churn of public life.
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"To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-be-more-involved-and-more-aware-is-appealing-154766/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.













