Lake Bell Quotes

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

I would prefer not to be living with anyone, really. Like, as much as I care for my special friend, I don't want to live with her.

I wish I had a little bit more privacy.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets.

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.

... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.