Burt Reynolds Quotes

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.

I didn't realise how much I was alienating people. I would constantly refuse to go out when friends would call. At one point, I didn't realise I was at home for a week.

I love to be a hermit.

A lot of athletes are stuck on themselves and don't want to socialize and that kind of thing. When I see that, I hate it.

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

I genuinely believed no one would want to marry me. I am difficult to live with. I'm selfish, quite weird and I need time on my own to think - and then I work all night long. That is difficult for someone to deal with. And it would drive me mad - I could never be my own girlfriend!

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.