Quotes About Attention

I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention.

I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

I feel shy when people are fussing on me.

If Cole and I are together, we're noticeable. Fan encounters come with the job, and you can't shy away from them.

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

I was the eldest child, so I know how it feels to have attention shared with a sibling.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

You kind of think people get sick of you after a while, but apparently not.

I think everyone became sick of Sheryl Crow. I actually became sick of Sheryl Crow.

I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

I'm sick of seeing my face on television.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.

I get sidetracked very easily.

A lot of times, college can get you sidetracked. I was ready to turn my full attention to golf.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.