Quotes About Attention

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

Judging by the number of things I get asked to do I don't think the public are sick of me.

Most fads get jump starts because of the media.

People are always jumping at what's new - who's the next person, who's the hottest thing, or whatever - so to be able to grasp the attention of everybody is difficult.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

If you care about your product, you should care just as much about how you describe it.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

Being a big black man in China in the mainland, walking down the street, you have everyone looking at you, 'Basketball?' They don't really see a lot of us around, maybe on TV, so they're just looking.

Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.

I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.

The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.

People think I'm a keen birdwatcher, but I don't go out of my way to look at birds. I'm not Bill Oddie. But I do know which are which. I keep my eyes open.

Keep your eye on the ball.

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

People really care about Kim Kardashian: they know her, they watch her, they follow her on social media, they know about her whole family. It's more than just being a fan.

Mostly, people want to take pictures sometimes of me, or they'll say, 'Hey.' That's been kinda cool.

You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing.