“I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 257 of 309
“If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.”
“Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.”
“My father didn't know George W. Bush from Adam.”
“I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.”
“It is really awkward to see myself on screen.”
“I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.”
“I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.”
“It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not wholly) relieve it. I must never forget it... I want sensuality and sensitivity, both... Let me never deny that... I want to err on the side of violence and excess, rather than to underfill my moments.”
“Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.”
“She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.”
“I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be the centre of attention or the class joker instead of knuckling down. Far from the perfect student.”
“I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.”
“A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.”
“When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.”
“When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger.”
“It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.”
“When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.”
“I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.”
“I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.”