Adwoa Aboah Quotes

Some of my closest friends know that when I worry about something or when I'm upset, I close myself off and stay in my room. I watch movies and I don't get out of bed.

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.

There's a time in everybody's life they really don't want to talk to people: they want to get away from talking or being on the phone and stuff.

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

Escapism is survival to me.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I like being alone. I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

In the past I'd lose and not talk for a few days. I'd become strange. Difficult to live with.

I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

I think I am very anti-social.