“A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.”
Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States
Robert Redford, as quoted in Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars : A Quiz Book (2003) by Andrew J. Rausch, p. 216
Misattributed
Collected by Ibn Abee Shaybah (13/360) Ibn Hajr graded this Athar as being Saheeh.
“A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.”
Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States
Robert Redford, as quoted in Hollywood's All-Time Greatest Stars : A Quiz Book (2003) by Andrew J. Rausch, p. 216
Misattributed
George Alec Effinger book When Gravity Fails
Source: When Gravity Fails (1986), Chapter 13 (p. 168).
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
Edward Albee (1928–2016) American playwright
"Edward Albee : An Interview", in Edward Albee : Planned Wilderness (1980) edited by Patricia De La Fuente, p. 8
Context: I've noticed that there is not necessarily a great relationship between what the majority of critics have to say and what is actually true. Some of them are so busy trying to mold the public taste according to the limits of their perceptions, and others are so busy reflecting what they consider to be the public taste — that view limited again by their perception. You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid — but most people don't take the trouble.
“Humility is attentive patience.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
“Pay attention not to the goodness of people, but to the truth.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non prestate attenzione alla bontà delle persone, ma alla verità.
Source: prevale.net
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary (1988)
“Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.”
Michael Chabon book Summerland
Source: Summerland
“People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes