Quotes About Attention

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything.

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

'24' is not an anti-government show, really. We've always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, '24' is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention.