Quotes About Reclusiveness

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

I go down to the dive bar around the corner when I go out. I don't go to the showbiz parties.

I have two garden parties a year to avoid going out to dinner.

I don't go out - ever. I'm lucky enough to have awesome friends, and we always end up at someone's house. We're big house-party guys.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

The people who know me know I'm extremely private or try and be as private as I can with my personal life.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

You'll never see me at award ceremonies.

I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), a reclusive, near-deaf, self-taught rural schoolteacher who, working alone and having almost no contact with the wider scientific community, invented ingenious engineering designs for multistage rockets, orbiting space colonies, and interplanetary craft. Though

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

I've never really socialized, I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

My 'people skills' are 'rusty.' Pardon me but I have spent the last year as a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent.

I don't go out that often. I'm not going to clubs or anything.

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

I have a Facebook page and a website. Beyond that, I'm actually a very private person. I'd rather see the focus on the books than on me.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place

I doubt if he himself leaks even enough to piss more than once a year on his birthday,

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

I'm very, very private; I don't enjoy talking about myself to strangers. Particularly strangers with tapes going.

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.