Nobody Cares Quotes
The phrase "nobody cares" can sting, but it can also free you. These quotes play with that tension -- some reminding you that caring about others is the prerequisite for being heard, others using humor to point out how indifference works in everyday life.
These lines fit well in motivational talks, humorous social media posts, self-reliance essays, or presentations on empathy and connection. Browse the collection below.
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“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
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“If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
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“If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.”
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“At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.”
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“If you lose, nobody cares about you.”
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“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”
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“Everybody is interested in success, but nobody cares about the process behind it.”
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“The thing about the NFL is nobody cares. Nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels sorry for you… They don't care if you're hurt. They don't care if you don't feel good. You have a bad call. Play goes against you? No one cares. You've got to play. You've got to win.”
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“I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.”
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“Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.”
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“I promise you… nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.”
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“I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.”
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“Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.”
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“Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.”
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“If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.”
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“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.”
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“In rock music, you have a big success before you turn 30, then there is sort of a decay. Then there is the reunion, and everyone is waiting to hear what you were doing when you were 20, and nobody cares what you are doing at 50 or 60. But the more I continue, the more I produce, the more I play every year in bigger places.”
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“Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn't matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.”
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“Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.”
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“Nobody cares what any politician in Washington says.”
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“Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?”
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“Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.”
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“If I go out to eat with my wife or take my son to the park, nobody cares.”
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“People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.”
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“I think it'd be miserable to play in a place like Jacksonville, where nobody cares.”
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“Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.”
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“Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.”
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“When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.”
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“Vice president is the bridesmaid, and nobody cares about you. Nobody wants you. You're just in the way. You're there to play a subsidiary role. You're like the middle child or the poor relation.”
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“Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.”
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“Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.”
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“I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.”
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“It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.”
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“If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx albums - nobody cares about what you have to say.”
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“In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.”
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“You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.”
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“My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.”
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“There are millions of people around the world that want to be artists and want to make stuff to entertain people, but nobody cares.”
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“I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.”
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“Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.”
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“I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.”
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“I am not a part of Bollywood. Nobody cares about me in Bollywood and I have mentally resigned from Bollywood long ago. I am an independent filmmaker.”
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“Actually, Hollywood is the reverse of what most outsiders think it is. It is not a crazy, nervous place. An actor is less bothered here than he is anywhere else. You can live your life as you please and nobody cares.”
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“In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.”
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“Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation.”
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“I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.”
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“Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it.”
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“It doesn't matter if you're the best wrestler in the world and can do every move perfectly; if you don't connect with the crowd or sell well or have good promos, nobody cares.”
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“It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.”
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“I'm not a football coach; sometimes I'd like to be - you can grab guys by the facemask, you can yell at the refs, nobody cares.”
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“You don't want to be the guy nobody cares about.”
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“I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.”
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“A different type of human has to play that sport. Hockey players keep fighting - nobody cares what's wrong with you, as long as you have one foot to skate on, you keep playing.”
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“I believe now we're in such a niche-land in media that you have to super-serve your niche rather than try to be everything to everyone, because if you do that, instead of making your group care, nobody cares.”
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“I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.”
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“I'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!”
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“What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.”
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“The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.”
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“When you don't have a lot of views, it can feel like nobody cares about you. But it's not necessarily that. It's just that the industry is super tough. You need to find that moment and when you find that moment, or you have that song, you've got to capitalise on it.”
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“Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?”
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“Go to a Cubs game and see how many people are in the stands, because when you can't win, nobody cares anymore.”
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“Nowadays when you're shooting HD people will walk in front of the camera, it can just be rolling all the time - nobody cares.”
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“If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.”
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“Nobody's tuning in - let's check the TV Guide listings and see what game Joe Buck is calling. Nobody cares. They want to see the Cubs. They want to see the Packers. They want to see the Cowboys. They don't care who's calling the game.”