Quotes About Attention

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.

I'm not winning any modeling awards, I'm not a Rhodes Scholar, but I genuinely feel that if you're taking time out of your day and your energy to comment on my art, then I got your attention.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the content, he's just hearing him. When I'm onstage, he's looking at the audience members and can't believe that there are strangers listening to me, and he's just delighted by the whole thing.

I don't know that there's more bullying or whether it's just more talked about. It seems to me that possibly that there's been a lot of bullying all the time, but at the moment, it's something that people are talking about.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.

One thing which I know about this world of glamour is that it is better to have people talking about you than not being talked about at all.