Michel Houellebecq Quotes

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

I don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

When I was growing up, I didn't have tons and tons of friends.

I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.

Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.

Now when I'm not working, I don't really hang out with the young comics.

I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I never really had a lot of friends where I lived. Online, you can have thousands of friends.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.

When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.

The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Where are all our friends?

I love to meet people; it’s the only fun I have.

I would love to have more actress friends, but I just don't.

I'm an actor doing a job, but I'm also living a life.

In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.

I just don't get out as much as people think I do.