Sean Hayes Quotes

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

I used to listen to 'Woman's Hour' every morning, but I've discovered that I can't have words on when I'm working.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

Where I have problems is when I am in the midst of doing something that I am completely focused on, and then I am asked to buy shoes or something.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

You ain't learning nothing when you're talking.

When I'm acting and I have to remember my lines and put my mind in concert with my body, I don't tic.

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

Concentration may be my weak point.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.