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On the end of "Sex and the City" (1998): My job came to an end, and it was awful to say goodbye to such a great character. As far as I was concerned, I was sacked. It was the end. I had dedicated myself to the show, doing countless 17-hour days, and I had detached myself from (then-husband) Mark Levinson.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

Acting is still enjoyable, but there are no more challenges any more for me. No, none at all. I`m much more interested in painting and composing music these days. I`ve become what I always wanted to be, a jobbing actor. I`m just detached, I do my thing. I work hard at it, but I don`t invest my life in it. As long as they pay me on time and I get a good script with a good director, I have fun. That`s all.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can`t be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can`t be detached.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can`t be detached.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what`s going on.

My choice of roles while not entirely a choice - you have to select from what you are offered. If I seem detached or distant, it`s because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, `Well, at least this never happens to me.` I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art`s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

The detached observer`s view is one window on the world.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

A lot of people get detached from nature by staying in their homes, offices, cars, etc.. I wanted to get in touch with nature and the natural elements of the seasons and how it affects us all.