Quotes About Isolation

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.

I'm much happier on my own. Being a member of The Corre, for example, I was obviously better than all three of those guys. However, I made the mistake of holding them as equals. No more.

I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.

You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.

I don't even go to the grocery store anymore. I hardly do anything anymore. I'm like a hobbit in a hole. I just don't do anything anymore.

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.

I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.

I am hated in my hometown.

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.

I didn't connect with the kids. I was in the studio. I never saw the kids. I hoped they liked it, of course. And then I'd go write some more. And then I'd go buy me a home. Very American.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird and how that could feel lonely or hopeless.

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.

In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied everywhere else.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.