Quotes About Attention

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

If you want any attention in the Howard household, you have to shout quite loudly and try to develop a personality.

In cinema, you have a captive audience, but to grab the attention of a housewife, who is in the middle of her household work and to keep them gripped to you, is a huge challenge.

When I fight, people are going to watch me fight. They're not gonna turn the channel to 'Real Housewives of OC' like they will other fighters.

I have to make sure, when you start seeing a film, you are going to see it until the end. I have to, of course, entertain you a little bit. The real question is how far do I go?

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

I feel like when I came in the game, I was more focused on like, 'yo how many times can I get on the radio?'

A great composition or lyrics no longer decide whether something is good. What matters is, how much has it been seen.

People all want to hug me. They want to touch The GC!

There's an attention to detail that you learn in the video room that, I don't want to say you can't get anywhere else, but it's a huge part of their foundation.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.

It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

I am a thornbush, bristling from the overattention of my parents, and he is a man of a million little fatherly stab wounds, and my thorns fit perfectly into them.

When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.