Scarlett Johansson Quotes

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I don't have any social life or anything.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me because of the fact I haven't got any true friends! I'm fine the way I am.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

In N.Y. you're always around people, but in L.A. you can go days without seeing anyone.

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.