Quotes About Attention

I don't think I'm a neck actor in otherthings. But in Bridgerton,' particularly with the way the corset sits andthe attentionon the neck, it makes you hold yourshouldersacertain way.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

I don't know what makes me me. Sometimes it's really annoying to be me, but I have always had a spirit that wants to find a challenge, parties, the life, the attention, where the most energy is - I'm going in.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

I know every part of their lives. I know about their animals; if they've got a dog, I know its name. My players love their dogs. I know about their partners; I know if they go to the cinema - it's the detail you need to be successful. If they have an ice cream, I know about it.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

I love it when people send me body parts.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.

If you give a party, you better give it right.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work.

There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence.

Any time a famous rich kid screws up, people want to know about it. Makes them feel good.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

He paused again. "Hello?" he called out. "Yoo-hoo!

Every kitchen, to some extent, is an operating room, whether conscious of the responsibility or not.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

On Sabbaths we are called to enjoy and delight in creation and its gifts. We are to slow down and pay attention to our food, smelling and tasting its riches. We are to take the time to see the beauty of a tree, a leaf, a flower, the sky that has been created with great care by our God. He has given us the ability to see, hear, taste, smell, and touch, that we might feast with our senses on the miraculousness of life.

On Sabbaths God also invites us to slow down to pay attention and delight in people.

In a culture as frenetic and inattentive as ours, a "slowed down" Christian who is a contemplative presence to God and others is an extraordinary gift.