Quotes About Attention

There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

One of the things we joke about in the FPS development is it's so hard to get the player to actually bother to look at all the cool stuff you've been doing. You spend a lot of time making really cool things, and usually the player isn't looking where you want them to.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

I wouldn't say I handle attention well. I'd say I stumble over pick-up lines poorly. I'm not good at any of that.

Nobody has really gone out to Russia to fight somebody like Kovalev. A lot of people are paying attention to it and can't believe what I'm doing. Some people think I'm going to pull out. I've seen comments saying 'Oh this is a good publicity stunt' and I was just laughing. They don't understand.

So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual - and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion.

PowerPoint makes us stupid.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

The public's not stupid.

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

It might sound so stupid, but guys do not hit on me. I'm not really sure why, but it's very rare that a guy will ever come up to me and be like, 'I'm going to lay down my game right now, and you're going to like it.'

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.

It's funny: when the press knows someone's gonna say something stupid, they're quick to pass them a mic and put a camera on them, and everybody talk about it.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

I'm not very daring in my street style, usually because there's a photographer around!

Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.