Hermit Quotes

Sometimes, I think I ought to go back and do at least one thing really well. But again, indolence will probably cause me to hesitate about finding a place to start. Part of that indolence perhaps is due to shyness because I`m a natural hermit. I`ve been in constant motion of escape all my life. I never really found the right corner to hide in.

"It`s such a struggle to protect your integrity and dignity in this industry ... they really want to attack your morality and your beliefs. They need you to give up a certain part of yourself before they`ll initiate you into `stardom` ... I`ve always been kind of a hermit. I find my joy in the little things they want to take away from me. Prior to all this, I took pleasure from being the observer. Now I`m the observed."

(On Method actors) It is hard to dig them because they move like hermit crabs - they have to have a shell to crawl into and they don`t want anyone to get to know them ... They are offbeat and strange and always thinking about themselves. They are always asking themselves, `Where do I fit in; what`s in it for me?`. These youngsters are doing it the hard way. They make a thorough study of being natural and being unnatural. The girls go around looking like they`re made up for a death scene in a hospital room. I don`t know why if a girl goes out in public she wants to make herself look ugly instead of a little bit attractive. (1958)

He`s not a hermit, and he doesn`t hide behind trees or anything, He`s been rather active in the community. The largest charity fundraiser in South Florida is the Naples Winter Wine Festival. He`s a director of that.

If I wasn`t in the theater, I would be a hermit.

The mind is not a hermit`s cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit