Quotes About Reclusiveness

I've been avoiding journalists my whole life.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

I'm not very sociable. If I get invited to a glamorous event I probably won't go. That world does not really appeal to me.

I don't do much on social media. I don't really want people knowing about my life.

I don't enjoy being on social media or at events.

I don't live my life in a social way. I don't put everything out on social media. I don't live that reality lifestyle. At the same time, I've always been private, ever since I was in high school.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

Or maybe his reclusiveness was a decisive marketing strategy-if you disappear, people are more interested in your work. You become a legend while you're still alive. Crouching behind a stonewall, or the post under a house...people are kneeling down to find you.

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.

If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.

You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour.

He also dropped out of the scene and is no longer to be found among other flambeurs.

now it's computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about everybody else long before they meet them. nobody will want to meet anybody else ever again and everybody will be a recluse like I am now

I don't like people

I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

You won't see Moonves on Twitter.