Phone Use Quotes

There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.

Some actors are constantly on the phone, some are always looking into the mirror while some like to sit and bond.

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.

I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.

I like to drive with my knees. Otherwise, how can I put on my lipstick and talk on the phone?

I get on social media sometimes. I think it's good to find a balance and to be able to put your phone down.

If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.

I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.

Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go "omg, omg, wtf, zzz"? Is that rude?

Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

Talking, texting or tweeting on your phone is the worst in any social situation. I went to a lunch during Paris Fashion Week, and I managed to steal a few moments with Lee Radziwill - who I think is perhaps the classiest woman alive - and she said this is her biggest pet peeve too. So I'm in good company.

I don't tweet, Twitter, email, Facebook, look book, no kind of book. I have a land line phone at my home - that's the only phone I have. If my phone rang every day like everyone else around me, I would lose my mind.

When you're at dinner with somebody and they are on their phone. I think there's that lost art of conversation and so I just always try to keep my phone far away from me when I'm with people.

People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.

Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

You have family and kids, you get home and they want to play with you but you just end up on your phone. I caught myself doing that when my little one wanted a kickaround and I decided I'd had enough.

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

I realised I had an issue with my mobile phone use when a friend started explaining the virtues of the Fast 800 diet and, while still engaged in the conversation, I pulled out my phone and ordered the book before they had finished their sentence.