Quotes About Attention

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

I never believe it when people claim they knew they wanted to be actors when they were 4 or 5 years old. I think that's rubbish. When you're that age, you just like showing off.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.

I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

I know that people are going to recognize my voice as being different and they are going to be saying, 'Let me listen a little bit closer to see if she says something that I don't agree with.' They're probably going to pay a little bit more attention.

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

I used to go to clubs and sing as myself but people weren't interested. And then I turned up as a woman and suddenly everyone was interested.

At clubs with constant media attention it is harder.

A lot of young people have not a clue what being famous entails. When you lose your anonymity you can't walk down the street without people looking at you.

I feel like I've paid attention to all the great coaches who have coached me.

I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

It's embarrassing to say you want to be a comedian. Admitting that you want attention and you think you're such a laugh.

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

I never really think about what people are going to think of the movie afterwards. Or what people are going to call me. I just want to make a great project, and my focus is really all on that. And then I really don't read reviews. Like, you know, go on comment boards or anything.

I think you've got to be careful with social media. You can get addicted to the buzz of people liking and commenting. It's exhausting.

It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.

I feel complete when I look at my phone and see thousands of likes and comments.