Quotes About Attention

If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky.

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

I read the papers every day just to discover if one mentions Anna Held.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.

I am really surprised that what I am wearing on 'Countdown' has got into the papers.

I don't really read the papers.

At a club like City, there are things in the papers and talk all the time. Ever since I've been a footballer, I have coped with that.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it.

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.

If I go out to eat with my wife or take my son to the park, nobody cares.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one that's catching people's attention.

We're sort of in an age now when we have too much information, which can take us down a specific path. You're getting too much information too quickly to be able to slow it down and parse it out.