Quotes About Attention

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

He was listening so I don't remember.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.

The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

Cole, for Christ's sake, will you stop staring at me like I'm beefcake of the month?

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

On a date, if you look more often to your phone than to your girlfriend/wife, then you have a problem... but if it is your partner who is messaging you, than you both need help.

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

I'm the master of distractions. A couple of hand gestures and BAM! I'll pull the underwear clean off your butt.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.