Quotes About Reclusiveness

Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture–obsessed geek. An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact. I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.

Lì, sotto le cupe luci fluorescenti del mio minuscolo monolocale, non c'era modo di sfuggire alla verità. Nella vita reale, non ero altro che un eremita asociale. Un recluso. Un nerd con una carnagione cadaverica e un'ossessione per la cultura pop. Ero soltanto un'altra anima perduta, triste, solitaria, che sprecava la sua vita su un videogioco osannato da tutti.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

My favourite outdoor activity is going back inside.

As a point of fact, I am not used to making frequent appearances in public, except at times when it is required.

As a director, nobody told me I'd be talking to people all day. I'm naturally reclusive - I feel myself peek out at a certain point and go, 'All the extrovert in me is done! I'm on reserve!'

I've always been one to shy away from the publicity, the limelight, whatever you want to call it. I prefer to be in the background.

I had become so insulated in my world as a mother that I didn't know how to pick up the phone and call anybody to put myself out there. I don't live my life anymore that way.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight...

Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

I am perhaps excessively independent and generally reclusive, and I hated having to ask people for help, but I could see that this was yet another opportunity to work on a weakness. Free Rider was stretching me in ways I had never anticipated.

In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.

Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying.

I don't do interviews.

I decided I would never do interviews again.

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while.

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews.

I don't give interviews.

I personally don't feel like I'm really different with the mask on or not, but I don't really like to take interviews or go talk to other people or in front of other people.

I don't really leave my house. I'm a very introverted person. I don't like going out. I don't like parties.

Sou sociável ao excesso. Por isso me parece razoável subtrair da vista das pessoas a minha importunidade para incubá-la sozinho, e encolher-me e recolher-me em minha carapaça, como as tartarugas. Aprendo a ver os homens sem a eles me agarrar: isso seria um ultraje quando o passo é tão cambaleante.

He saw little enough of people and little enough was more than enough, and he didn't look to give them reasons to seek him out.