Quotes About Attention

I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you're paying attention to stuff like that.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.

The feature space is a spectacle space. It's about getting people out of their houses to go to theater when we all have a lot of things in our home now that occupy our attention.

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.

In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.

Celebrity's a spectator sport. You have to feed it.

There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

My speeding offences (whether caught or not) are always in situations where the speed limit is 30, but I think it's 40. And I'm never doing 40, always a careful 37.

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Spell check exists for a reason.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

I still like complete sentences that are grammatically correct without spelling errors. I don't always achieve this, and it is irksome to read a message I have sent and discover errors. I know I often leave out words in e-mail, not by choice, but because of the way my brain works.

It's not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I've got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can't take them out on a date. It's not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.

We compete with all of the time that consumers spend when they're not sleeping, they're not eating, not going to work or going to school. Because everything else is entertainment time.

I wish my daughter wasn't spending time thinking of Kim Kardashian or Rihanna.