Rhona Mitra Quotes

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

I know I'm really lucky to do what I do, but sometimes with the hours and the travelling, I don't get to see my family and friends as much as I'd like. It can be lonely on the road. Sometimes I come offstage after a massive adrenaline rush, and then when I go to an empty hotel room on my own, it can be an anti-climax.

I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.

Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I don't mind being by myself, even in a foreign country.

Maybe I'll want to go to Iceland and see the volcanoes, or attend some lectures, or go to Mexico and go to the jungle. On my own. With nothing whatsoever to do with music!

I have traveled the world by myself.

I packed my bags and I moved to Bangkok, Thailand. I spent a year there like completely isolated, no Wi-Fi.