Attention Seeking Behavior Quotes

I'm not going to blow up just for the sake of it, because it's on TV. That's not the issue.

A lot of the reason why the debate is acrimonious is because of the 24/7 news cycles, blogs, and people being able to just throw something out there in order to get attention. And I'm not going be out there doing the same thing, trying to trash my successor or call attention to myself. I hope that's a positive contribution to the dialogue.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

Obviously I don't agree with everything he [Donald Trump] says. There's a lot that we have a difference of opinion on. But we can't ignore that he's touched on some issues that people are concerned about. If you look at the statements he made this week, obviously I think he made them partially to recapture the limelight after having lost it.

There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.

The problem is I think Howie is exactly right, is that Donald Trump would rather be at the center of a media controversy in a negative way than allow the limelight to move to Hillary Clinton and let her actually take heat in the public - in a public arena. And it just sucks up all of the oxygen.

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.

People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.

Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.

I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

Nowadays you can't be loud enough!

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

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.

I'm definitely a narcissist, and TV is fabulous for narcissists.

I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

I think that people are having to do like really crazy things to shock people now, to get people's attention and it kind of, it's this way in lots of different aspects of life. You know, people fight for attention. It's competitive. So they need to be the one that stands out.

I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet.

Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

My take on celebrity is simply that some of us have to make a bigger fool of ourselves than others.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.