Top 100 Get Attention Quotes
#1. Don't get me wrong. I don't take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can't get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I'm in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.
Derrick Rose
#2. When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.
Victoria Beckham
#3. I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.
Gary Gulman
#4. To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.
Stacy Pershall
#5. Looking back, I didn't realize until years later what a huge influence Red Skelton was in my stage demeanor with the band. I mean, I always liked things that were funny, and later I realized that having a sly sense of humor was a way to get attention and even respect in school.
Jello Biafra
#6. I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
Lizzo
#7. I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
Marianne Faithfull
#8. I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.
Sally Mann
#9. I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
Mariah Carey
#10. The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#11. On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.
Kevin Systrom
#12. It's sad that my daughter will get attention because of her daddy. I'm already watching her run around the house and pick up microphones. It's scary.
Bow Wow
#13. This is Marvin," he says. "He eats everything and yells like a distressed baby to get attention. I'm goat-sitting him this summer.
Chelsea Fine
#14. Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.
Alex Tabarrok
#15. It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.
Elisabeth Shue
#16. Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't think the country is paying much attention.
George Osborne
#17. The whole world is sick ... we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.
Jess Walter
#18. Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
Bubba Sparxxx
#20. I think that in Hollywood, it's hard because so many people do turn out crazy. I don't need to go out every night to get attention. I'm happy with the amount that I have.
Amanda Bynes
#21. A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.
Dan Savage
#22. I wasn't looking for notoriety [when we marched]. But if that's what it took [to get attention], I didn't care how many licks I got. It just made me even more determined to fight for our cause.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
#23. One of the way to get attention is to write a book titled, How to get attention.
Vikrmn
#24. I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
Natalie Cole
#25. Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
Jerry Della Femina
#26. There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.
Emma Roberts
#27. It's easy for me to be vulnerable and craft songs when I'm being a hermit in my woods loft, secluded. When I get attention for it, whether it's on stage or in life - I have sort of a love-hate relationship with all of it. That makes me feel really stark naked.
Rachael Yamagata
#28. Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
Barack Obama
#29. Peterson revealed that he had decided the only way to get attention was "to frighten the hell out of everybody pianistically.
Stuart Isacoff
#30. All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing.
Christian Fennesz
#32. Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete
Claude C. Hopkins
#33. You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.
David Meerman Scott
#34. I get attention like a Lexus, girls wanna sex this
Play rappers like Tetris ... eat em like breakfast.
Lord Finesse
#35. Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.
Danny Meyer
#36. I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out.
Billy Porter
#37. I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.
Bill O'Reilly
#38. It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
Jose Gonzalez
#39. Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
Newt Gingrich
#41. I'm always amazed when adults say that children "just did that to get attention". Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?
Lawrence J. Cohen
#42. I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.
Darryl Pinckney
#43. 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.
Meg Cabot
#44. What have I told you about trying to sound ingratiatingly cute, Twyla?" she said. The little girl said, "You said I mustn't. You said that exaggerated lisping is a hanging offense and I only do it to get attention.
Terry Pratchett
#45. It's simply that in every crowd there's a twerp. All any twerp needs to do is protest loud and long, and he or she will get attention from other twerps who'll go along for the ride
after all, if such people didn't exist, the Ricki Lake Show wouldn't have an audience.
Terry Pratchett
#47. Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.
Paulina Porizkova
#48. Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.
Victoria Moran
#49. I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
Zach Braff
#50. A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.
Matt Drudge
#51. There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
Babatunde Adebimpe
#52. We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame. It's easier to get busted in the bedroom with the faculty chairman's wife than it is to finish that dissertation on the metaphysics of motley in the novellas of Joseph Conrad.
Steven Pressfield
#53. I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.
Jason Calacanis
#54. Ministry is when the people who hear you, don't want more of you; they want more of Him because of what you've said. When you point them to God's fire instead of trying to get attention for yourself-that's ministry.
Priscilla Shirer
#55. I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.
Evan Williams
#56. When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.
Kim Gordon
#57. I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
Gareth Bale
#58. When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'
Steven Wright
#59. Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
Marvin J. Ashton
#60. If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
Simon Cowell
#61. It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.
Larry Merchant
#62. When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.
Ronda Rousey
#63. I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I've photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.
Ruth Bernhard
#65. I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#66. All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
Jonathan Frid
#67. I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way.
George Carlin
#68. Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda
#69. Sort of person who would set something on fire just to get attention.
Rainbow Rowell
#70. Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn
#71. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.
James D. Bradley
#72. Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.
Bjorn Lomborg
#73. When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.
Jimmy Smits
#74. Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
Alice Walker
#75. It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti
#76. Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
Regina Brett
#77. My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Lorna Luft
#78. Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.
Beatrice Sparks
#79. I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
Tamsin Greig
#80. You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.
Toba Beta
#81. Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.
Bob Kerrey
#82. Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.
Brad Listi
#83. You can have all the brains in the world, but it takes a body to get most men's attention.
Jillian Dodd
#84. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
#85. But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
Juice Newton
#86. It's part of me to get off on those moments where ... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.
Robert Plant
#87. I want to be around you whenever I can. Doesn't matter what we're doing. You don't have to take your clothes off to get my attention. All you have to do is look my way. Exist.
Ranae Rose
#88. It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?
David Sedaris
#89. I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#90. I think it must be hard being David. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention.
Billie Piper
#91. I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.
John Buchan
#92. But as the business grows, you get more attention and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give it less to what you're doing.
Hamdi Ulukaya
#93. The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
Al Roker
#94. We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.
Shawn Amos
#95. You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.
Paul McCulley
#96. In actuality Boaz respected and recognized Ruth's character first. As a result he held her in high regard. You can instantly catch a man's attention, but if you don't have his respect you won't get the relationship you deserve.
Stephan Labossiere
#97. But Sophie and Howl were holding one another's hand and smiling and smiling, quite unable to stop. "Don't bother me know," said Howl. "I only did it for the money." "Liar!"said Sophie. "I said," Michael said, "that Calcifer's come back!" That did get Howl's attention and Sophie's too.
Diana Wynne Jones
#98. I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk ... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
Zac Efron
#99. Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.
Frederick Lenz
#100. And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.
Cherie Priest
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