Leelee Sobieski Quotes

The first thing I do before I get out of bed is reach for my phone and open Instagram.

Millennials are always on their phones and it's running their lives, but you know who is also on their phones? Moms and Dads and also some dogs... everyone is on their phone all the time.

I'm never on my phone, really.

We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.

I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

Sadly, I have disappointed the surveillance capitalists myself by not yet downloading 'Pokemon Go.' But I'm addicted to my phone enough as it is, and I don't necessarily need that helping hand.

I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't, I will wake up in the middle of the night and think, 'I'll check my messages. Or the number of my book on Amazon.'

I'm addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days.

Look around you in any restaurant, and you will see couples, families, and friends glued to their phones.

Kids are so accustomed to technology that it's upsetting to watch them without their phones. They don't know what to do. Sometimes I feel like I'm like that, too - if I get my phone taken away because I'm grounded, I don't know what to do. So I just have to sit in my room and stare blankly at the ceiling.

Anywhere I go, if I go out, I have to keep my phone out. I don't try to be rude. If I turn it around, I have to check it every 5 minutes.

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

In every public space, everyone has their head down on their phone. Including me.

Like most millennials, I have the bad, anxiety-inducing habit of grabbing my phone in the morning and scrolling through social media for 15, 20 minutes before I'm fully awake.

You see families at a restaurant and the kids are on the phone and the adults are on the phone. It's just a catastrophe.

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.