Quotes About Detachment

Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don't subscribe. I don't buy in.

What people think of me doesn't affect me. As bizarre as it sounds, I don't have a Google alert on my phone; I don't read newspapers, and I don't watch television. If something important happens, I will get to know about it.

The problem is I don't have respect for the films I make after I've made them. I detach myself and get embarrassed when I watch them later.

When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher.

I thought talking to human beings was just something that could make things complicated and unpleasant. So I didn't talk much. I just watched people.

I do know that I have always been one of life's observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.

I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

It's pointless to get all huffy about stuff.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

I don't like clocks.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

You can't lose a game in which you're not even competing.

I've never even watched one of my films since they're completed.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

I don't like to get involved in conflict.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

It's quite nice to switch off and not see anything to do with cricket.

I can go somewhere and switch off completely. I will let people know in advance that I'm away, but once I'm out of contact, I'm out of contact. That's it.

I have no problem switching off.