Detached Attitude Quotes

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

Barack Obama, he just sits out. He sits back; he criticizes everybody. He's got his professorial attitude, real condescending, as if he's got all the answers.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

I don't really ever worry about what anyone else does and I certainly don't worry about what anyone else says about me.

How can you not care?" "Practice," Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

I never look at scores or anything.

Although it's a brilliant achievement, 100 centuries doesn't mean anything to me.

Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

I have my own personal opinions, but they're just that.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

Don't live and die with every play.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Football is a sport I have fun with, but I play it, and that's all. I never watch games and know nothing about what's going on in the sport.

I am not affected or carried away by success or failure.

I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. [...] There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.