Quotes About Distraction

Your life changes after the limelight is on you. Sometimes, it is easy to get caught up in the nonsense.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Ever since third grade - I never even noticed it until after the game - people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I'm so locked in when I'm playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we're up 20 or 30 and I'm on the bench. But when I'm in the game, I don't hear him.

On 'Bake Off' there's lots of stuff no one notices until afterwards. At the time you're too busy concentrating. All the other bits, like the funny innuendoes, often go over your head.

Having a giant beard really distracts people from noticing you're barely keeping it together emotionally.

I love dressing up, and I'm aware that people do say that it can take your attention away from the game. But I disagree with this notion!

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

I carry music in my head, so I don't need more. It drives me nuts that, in hotels or on boats, people seem to think you need music 24 hours a day.

A father who is distracted for a few minutes by his myriad interests and obligations in the world of adult interactions is being, well, a father. A mother who does the same is failing her children.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

Obsessions turn people off.

Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

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