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Related It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - a... PAUL GIAMATTI I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting i... REBECCA HALL Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I I never like all the attention. I like the pressure, not the attention. EPIPHANNY PRINCE I just want to be a normal kid like all my friends. I like acting. I might want to be an actor for a... ERIK PER SULLIVAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The attention is nice and flattering, but with all that stuff that was going on last year, I had no ... DON COOPER I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. OCTAVIA BUTLER I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and... JONATHAN AMES After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about ... GEORGE CLOONEY I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young. SAOIRSE RONAN I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the pape... ARTHUR MILLER It was never my goal to be an actor. RACHEL HURD-WOOD We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. STEVEN PRESSFIELD We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'... JESSICA ST. CLAIR All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was... LUCAS TILL I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Oh, for Christ's sake,' I hear. 'Can we please just try to have a good time?' This is like ordering ... DAVID SEDARIS The fog was a big factor but people talking on cell phones and going too fast and not paying attenti... JAMES JOSEPH It was quite overwhelming for me to have all this attention. It's fun, but I really needed time to f... JANINE JANSEN It's nice, I guess. I like the attention, and I like people coming out to watch me play. There's not... MORGAN PRESSEL I felt like I was in war, like I was in a foreign country where they didn't pay attention to you. Go... GEORGE MCDONALD When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never... STEVEN WRIGHT Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Oly... LAURE MANAUDOU Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your no... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do ... RANDALL PARK i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g... DALLY SALAD My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor. ERIN CUMMINGS I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Just remind to myself that I have to have eyes always, and never lose, never lose attention. ELIANA CRESTANI It feels pretty crazy. I never imagined all this attention. I was just trying to get healthy for mys... ANGELA HEFEL You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extrem... ELISHA CUTHBERT I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a ... HARRISON FORD I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people sa... DAVID SEDARIS I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor. CHRIS BURKE I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience. KATARINA WITT I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbeli... GARY SHTEYNGART A lot of people would say, 'Man, I wish I could be like Brittany Rayburn and get all this attention,... DAVID BAXTER Fate. She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisi... BELLA ANDRE I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve... AARON KATZ I'm not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice do... JOHN MOTSON I'm a big-guy guy. I look at guys like Shaq, Ben Wallace, guys who play inside and play tough. I... MOSES MALONE I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a hig... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can t... HELMUT JAHN I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention. AL PACINO While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attenti... ESHA GUPTA I love men and I like to get their attention. EARTHA KITT Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor... RENE AUBERJONOIS I believe they took it all into consideration. Like I said, though, I just want to bring some local ... BRUCE HILLIS I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your ol... SLOANE CROSLEY When I buy clothes, I like to buy them in outfits so I know they go together. I like a very simple, ... RENA SOFER dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo... KURT COBAIN By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor. ALEXIS DENISOF It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good ... DANA ALTMAN i want to be the best i can be but when i cant i'll try my best to achieve my goal my goals in life ... DALLY SALAD You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up... ONE DIRECTION Everybody asks the same questions, and to tell the truth, nobody remembers. We were kids. People ask... NORMA NORWOOD I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... AMITABH BACHCHAN They were just clamoring for attention. At one time, I had six kids hanging on me. I was trying to w... BRAD VON BERGEN Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to gr... ASHWIN SANGHI I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like hi... DRAKE TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided t... RAM KAPOOR And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor... RENE AUBERJONOIS You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up ... BARRY LYGA I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'l... INBEE PARK Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't eve... JOANNE HARRIS I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ... B. B. KING I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and creat... MARK HAMILL Shutting off [Twitter] without warning was jarring and isolating, like having a friend you rely on j... SCAACHI KOUL When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic... DAVID SUCHET Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to... JANET ECHELMAN Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a la... JENNIFER CARPENTER I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they h... BARBARA KRUGER It's an honor to join those guys, but I really haven't paid attention to the home runs because I jus... FELIPE LOPEZ It's an honor to join those guys, but I really haven't paid attention to the home runs because I jus... FELIPE LOPEZ I'm playing right now a role, and the role is called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.... WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to ta... NICHOLAS SPARKS I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like. PATRICIA ARQUETTE I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM That's big for me, any time I go (opposite field) it's big, especially on a changeup, ... It's a goo... BOBBY CROSBY I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That... WARWICK DAVIS To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded atten... EVELYN KEYES I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention s... KING TUFF
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