Quotes About Attention

'Lady Bird' probably doesn't need more attention than it has gotten. It's a perfect movie, and some of its perfection is in its casting, but this is a movie crammed with wonderful work by people who aren't Laurie Metcalf and Saoirse Ronan: people like Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and, yes, that Timothee Chalamet.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

I'm a perfectionist, and I'm not going to let the world hear a record until it's ready.

Be a perfectionist.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I try to be a perfectionist.

I'm such a perfectionist that I see every mistake that I make.

To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews.

When I think of Uniqlo, I think of things that are perfectly made, that people have spent a lot of time considering.

People like crap. It doesn't matter. I think if you have a big mouth and you perform so-so, it is what it is. People are going to notice you more. Nice guys come last. Let's say it like that.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desperate for it.

I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.

I understand marketing. I understand licensing. I understand the business side of our business. That comes from paying attention and wanting to do better, not just as an in-ring performer but as someone who loves the industry.

I needed to get attention a lot of times - I'm a performer, that's who I am.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.