Wayne Knight Quotes

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

New York is tough on lonely people.

Strangers are an endangered species.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

I don't belong much anywhere.

I don't need friends.

L.A. can be a tough city, very lonely. A lot of people move here to pursue a dream, and that's understandable. But sometimes it's hard to find genuine friends.

I feel like an alien sometimes, where I don't feel like I belong anywhere.

London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

When I was in Paris I was at a big club in a major city, but nobody really cared about each other. It didn't have that family feeling, I didn't see any team spirit.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

I felt untethered in Los Angeles.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.