Quotes About Isolation

The alienated man lashing out at society is a trope that popular culture loves to explore.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

The military is a discrete entity. Then they come back, and they're such a small percentage of the population, and they can't really - it's hard for them to talk to civilians.

As the Chinese girl, you don't fit in with anybody. It wasn't a large Chinese-American population, so I didn't grow up having a community of Asian friends. Even when there were Asian people, we sort of existed on our own.

An economy can survive with 10% of the population insolation. It can't survive when 50% of the population is in isolation.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

When I was in Portland, there were some dark times for me.

As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

The U.K. is fortunate in its geographical position. We're an island. But we are living in a completely interconnected world where disruptions in countries far away will have major impacts.

If they don't care about me, how can they possibly care about anyone else?

I don't like isolation play, unless you're in the low post.

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.

Guys like Andre Miller and Kevin Garnett - they're posting up hoping a second guy will run at them so they can pass. You're better just playing one-on-one in the post if you can.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

Because I never attended elementary schools of any kind, I missed most of the books that were popular with other kids my age. There was an exception, however, which was 'Harry Potter.' My grandmother gave me the first book when I was about 13, and I read it, then read all the rest.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

I work in a very contained environment, usually.

Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

It always felt as though there was a wall between me and contemporary dance. I didn't know how to get into it.