Alexis Bledel Quotes

I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

The golden years are for pussies. We went straight to brass.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more.

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.

whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

I don't run with anybody's herd. I don't like crowds. I don't like going to fancy places. I don't like the whole nightclub scene. Cocktail parties drive me mad. So I do my job and I stay away from the rest of it.