Quotes About Attention

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

The most common place I get stopped by fans is the ladies'.

In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

The cameras used to pass by me; now they're stopping for me.

I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

It does get crazy sometimes, but I've never complained about stopping to give autographs or anything like that.

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

There are still people, obviously, who are stopping you and want a selfie because they need to justify their own lives by being in close proximity to a celebrity... but those are minor with me. I'm not a major celebrity.

It's got difficult for me to walk down the street without people stopping me to ask for an autograph or to talk to me about boxing.

I actually like - if I may use the F word - fame. I like people stopping me in the street and saying, 'Can I have a photo?'

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.

Not everyone stops me on the streets, but when you're at airports or public places like that. It's kind of weird for me. I don't know how they recognize me. It just happens when people see me.

I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.