Quotes About Attention

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, 'Okay, cool. What's next?' You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, 'Yeah!'

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

A puppy is the ultimate distraction.

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.

I'm endlessly intrigued by stories, and I love helping someone to formulate his or her story. I can drift off when I'm reading pure abstraction, but the narratives of human lives hold my attention every time.

When a club legend becomes your manager, he automatically gets the attention of the players, purely because he had been there and done that.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Celebrity is not something I consciously pursue.

When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

If you pursued every rumour in Formula One, you'd hardly have time for anything else.

I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just pushed into a corner.

But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

There's a lot of things in my life that are more important I have to think about than what someone puts in the newspaper, or says on TV.

Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.

I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

Donald Trump should be focused on how to fix the country, not an award show.

I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.