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Quotes About Attention-seeking

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.
~ Adam Rex
Bigg Boss' made me famous, and I enjoyed the attention.
~ Rupali Ganguly
I broke things to get attention.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Hey Internet. Look at the books I read. I sure do read a lot. Everyone should think I'm very intelligent and sophisticated. I'm glad there's a website I can constantly remind them with.
~ Daniel Meyer
Behind every highly dramatic person lurks an unresolved trauma. Drama is his or her way of asking for love, and begging for help and understanding.
~ Doreen Virtue
She could be affectionate, generous, and optimistic one day; vengeful, depressed, and irritable the next. In the colloquial language of her friends, she was "either in the garret or cellar." In either mood, she needed attention, something the self-contained Lincoln was not always able to provide.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
She was done up like a Christmas tree--over-ripe mouth, beads of mascara thick on her eyelashes, green eyeshadow, a hat with a trailing drape that wound twice around her throat and hung down her back. The only thing missing was a man on a leash.
~ David Dodge
Facebook had to be the biggest playground for self-absorbed assholes that the world had ever seen.
~ Jana Deleon
Histrionics know how to get looked at, but they don't have a clue about how to look at themselves. They often know less about their own history and motivation than about those of their favorite television characters. Histrionics' selective memories make their lives into a series of vivid but unconnected events, no more related to one another than the programs broadcast on a given night.
~ Albert J. Bernstein
I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.
~ Greg Davies
Colombians don't switch on their TVs to see me, but what I'm wearing.
~ Virginia Vallejo
But he seemed to have a compelling need to feel special and be noticed by others all the time; and this drove him to create scenes.
~ Ken Follett
egocentric melodrama.
~ David Michie
Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
virtue-signalling is all about boasting,' reported Phillips. 'It flaunts the signaller's credentials as a morally virtuous person. It screams, "Me! Me! Me!
~ Robert Lacey
It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you—even if you have to act like a pig.
~ Rodman Philbrick
I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire.
~ Joan Rivers
My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.
~ Zach Galligan
I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.
~ David Walliams
There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.
~ Sam Esmail
Or, when we feel most insecure, we act flamboyantly or make crazy jokes to ensure that everyone's attention is on us.
~ Elaine N. Aron
A person who is self-centric has a propensity to put own appearance picture with almost everything & everyone to get the praise merely for his/her own face from the people.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who wants praise on own face almost every day is negative in character and the people who support such photo-bearing posts of his/her on social media are toxic by nature to him/her only.
~ Anuj Somany