Detachment Quotes

I`ve never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. An actor like Al Pacino lives to act. I`m not sure though, there`s something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that`s the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

There`s an enigmatic relationship between Max and myself. He has meant a tremendous amount to me....As an actor, Max is sound through and through. Robust. Technically durable. If I`d had a psychopath to present these deeply psychopathic roles, it would have been unbearable. It`s a question of acting the part of a broken man, not of being him. The sort of exhibitionism in this respect which is all the rage just now will pass over, I think. By and by people will regain their feeling for the subtle detachment which often exists between Max and my madmen. - Ingmar Bergman, Bergman on Bergman (1968)

Artists need to be outsiders in order to really view what`s going on. That little bit of detachment has been great for me being down here. I look like everyone else; I almost sound like everyone else, except for the odd time I say chesterfield or serviette. But I am different. And I am proud to be a Canadian...

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it`s detachment.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man`s dreams, man`s illness, man`s redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

My Detachment ... Soul of a New Machine.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness