I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

- Elliott Gould

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

- James Vincent McMorrow

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

- Jeffrey Eugenides

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

- Jessica Lange

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

- Jill Scott

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

- Jesse Eisenberg

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

- John Updike

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

- George Dzundza

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

- Gilda Radner

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

- Alison Gopnik

I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by what's going on around you.

- Eric Bana

I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.

- Elliot Cowan

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

- Dave Eggers

I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week.

- Colleen Atwood

We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.

- Charles Schwab

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

- Bruce Eric Kaplan

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

- Boz Scaggs

People get distracted by box-office figures and take jobs because they think it will advance their careers.

- Andrew Scott

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

- Ann Demeulemeester