Need for Attention Quotes

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

We really suffer from a hot-take disease, wanting to be the first one who has the hottest take.

I've always been an attention seeker. I've always demanded attention and I'll do anything to get it.

I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.

The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

I'm not a prosecutor at home. I don't talk about my day, because nobody's interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

When you're constantly involved in domination, what you're really looking for is constant highs.

I have this problem that I just like to get a reaction from people.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.

I've always felt like the reason I became an actor is because I look for more high drama than what I had at home.

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

I am the kind of person who does want very badly to be liked. I'm a right-miserable little show off.

I believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.

I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.