Quotes About Isolation

There is no good side to celebrity.

In New York, everybody is their own celebrity, so they're not so interested in other people.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

Life is very tough for women. When you are a certain age, you are left alone at home with no one to share your life with.

When you're champion, you feel you're the center of the world.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

When you're getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it's just you, feeling like you're in a fight against something that you can't control.

When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

I didn't have a childhood.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.

If you stay in the studio for a long period of time, you start to drive yourself around in circles.

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.