Octavia Spencer Quotes

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.

Does anybody actually go out in L.A.? When I lived there, I'd just stay in my apartment.

New York is tough on lonely people.

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

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.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

L.A. can be a tough city, very lonely. A lot of people move here to pursue a dream, and that's understandable. But sometimes it's hard to find genuine friends.

London does two things for me: it makes me feel connected, and it also makes me feel very isolated and quite lonely at times, and that's someone with two children in their family.

I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely.

The city can be the loneliest place of all.

I become a hermit when I am in Los Angeles and I don't leave my apartment at all from Monday through Thursday unless I have to and I don't get much sleep.

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles.