Quotes About Isolation

For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

The world is a penal institution.

You can get insular with fashion.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.

I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.

Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.

Acting is a really insular thing.

Working on TV can be quite insular.

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.

My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you're writing a book, it's a very insular process that's very confusing and dark. It's a lot of writing and rewriting in a way that I don't do so much when I'm writing songs.

One of the most important things for a CEO is not to get insulated.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

All I do is I have this insulated life with my wife and my daughter and a couple of friends who I try to see, but it doesn't even happen.

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.

People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.

Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.

'You're not alone' can be a great thing to hear when you're feeling quite despondent and alienated from the world and yourself. But if you're someone who's been completely overwrought with the intensity of life and the world, getting some space to be alone can be one of the things you crave most.

I don't interact with people much.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.