Quotes About Isolation

It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.

But I am not a serial dater or anything like that. Maybe when lockdown is over, I can do speed dating for weeks on end!

I have always seen Rajesh Khanna coming on the sets with his secretary only and no one from his family.

I was homeschooled for several years.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.

I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.

I have created a shell around me, in the good and the bad moments.

After 'Saawariya,' I retreated into a shell.

'The Shining' is one of my favorite movies of all time.

On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

Obviously, you're always shocked when you feel like you're not wanted anymore.

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

I was writing songs in my room for like six year, not showing anyone.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

I studied well, and I was the leader among my friends. However, I started losing interests in everything, and started becoming more and more awkward from some point.

Coming to Middlesex, there was one coach in particular who backed me. But outside of that, it's a pretty lonely place.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.