Charles Lamb Quotes

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.

In general, I feel very happy with how I got to have time on my own at least a little bit outside of the public eye.

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

All we ask is to be let alone.

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I don't belong to anyone.

I enjoy my time alone.

After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

I would say 20 percent of my time is alone, which I love.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.

If there is one thing that, as a director, you don't want to be a part of, it's a group. It's the same thing with music. I don't want to be a part of a scene. Just leave me alone. It's just my nature, and it's nothing against the people that are in that group, but I just like to be left alone.

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.