76 Quotes by Andrew Shue

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level.

You start to think bigger when you see how quickly a TV show can catch on in a whole country. That confidence, and thinking big, opened a lot of doors.

When I was in high school... I had to measure up to my older brother, who is an Eagle Scout. And that's not a good thing.

When you decide that you're really going to go out there, if you think about it, it's not that safe. It's not that easy... You have parents, siblings. You've seen people struggle. You've seen what's going on in the world. It's a challenge.

I got too competitive... But if you have different friends; maybe you are in the higher-level classes and have some friends there, and you have some friends from sports or others from a club. The more kinds of real friends... you can have, the better off you'll be.

I created an organization to help senior citizens. How many high school kids are out there helping senior citizens?

There are so many times in life-and I've had them-when I was really afraid. I was kind of a closed-in, self-involved person who was just trying to stay in that safe place and that nest where I had good friends and people who are just like me.