Reclusive Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Reclusive Quotes from famous persons: Pete Docter, Lia Ices, Thomas Pynchon, Christopher Cross, Linda Grant. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Reclusive Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

As a director, nobody told me I’d be talking to people all day. I’m naturally reclusive – I feel myself peek out at a certain point and go, ‘All the extrovert in me is done! I’m on reserve!’

Pete Docter

I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It’s all me.

Lia Ices

Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we’ll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there’s more!

Thomas Pynchon

I’m a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

Christopher Cross

I’m not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

Linda Grant

I’m reclusive when it comes to me giving art away because I get real sensitive about that and critiques.

J.I.D

At the end of the 18th century, a young British explorer named George Bogle became one of the first Westerners to penetrate the mysterious and reclusive realm of Druk Yul, or ‘Dragon Land.’

Lawrence Osborne

Big Brother‘ has put me off people. I thought, ‘I’m gonna get a dog.’ I really think I’m going to become more reclusive. It was nothing like I expected. I was so naive about it.

Leslie Jordan

I have a somewhat reclusive quality myself, and actually what’s great about New York is that it pushes you to be social because the streets are full of people.

Paul Sparks

People have all sorts of expectations which you can’t meet. Me, I’m so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

Ry Cooder

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

Caroline Knapp

Back in the ’80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

Rick Astley

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

Enya

Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.

Mahershala Ali

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the ’80s.

Corey Hart

Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.

Tom Junod

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I’m afraid I’m still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Sandra Cisneros

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this person who was reclusive, or hiding.

Michael Sorrentino

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

Tim Gunn

It’s funny because everyone says, ‘Oh you’re reclusive; you don’t do social media,’ but it’s not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that’s purposeful.

Banks

The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark – without charging anyone with a crime.

Bill Dedman

I’m not reclusive. I’m out and about.

Steven A. Cohen

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels.

Rumaan Alam

I become absolutely reclusive when I’m not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.

Anthony Warlow

I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I’m some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.

Kate Bush

You know why they think I’m reclusive? I don’t do the Hollywood stuff. I’ve never been on the circuit.

Eddie Murphy

My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can’t imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.

John Searles

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

Marilyn Hacker

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

Kate Bush

I’m not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Sade Adu

One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases – any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

Ethan Canin

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Robert B. Laughlin

It’s a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It’s not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.

Banks

I’m not very social when I’m off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It’s very reclusive.

Tori Amos

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