Jodie Foster Quotes

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

I'm quite a loner. I realized that I'm very introverted, and I get energy by being alone instead of being with other people.

I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

Being alone is very difficult.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

I don't like being alone.