Seeking Attention Quotes

Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB.

You ain't the only one that's tryna be the only one.

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

I was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

Brendon just likes to make a scene sometimes.

I quizzed him a lot on this point and i suspect the truth was that it was like a lot of things at that age: you don't have any clear reason, you just do it. You do it because you think it might get a laugh, or because you want to see if it'll cause a stir. And when you're asked to explain afterwards, it doesn't seem to make any sense.

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

If I show somebody something that I've written and they say, "Eh...alright," I just put it away and I never show it to anyone again. But I know people who won't take no for an answer, and eventually someone pays attention.

I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'

Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.

Basically I didn't get a ton of attention as a kid. I guess that's why I'm such a flashy lunatic.

Found, I told myself. Try to get found.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.

I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.