You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo.
— Lewis Black
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
— Leslie Nielsen
I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I have my best ideas when I am alone.
— Leona Lewis
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
— Lenny Kravitz
I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
— Lena Headey
Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.
— Leila Slimani
Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.
— Leigh Whannell
I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.
— Lee Daniels
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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.
— Laurence Sterne
My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
— Laurence Fishburne
Is being single hard? It depends where your mind is. If you are focused, being single is an enjoyable experience, but if you hate being alone, you'll hate being single. I think it depends on the individual are where they are in life.
— Lauren London
For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
— Laura Marling
I don't want to be just that transgender performer or that transgender musical artist. I want to create songs and art and have those be judged on their merit alone.
— Laura Jane Grace
What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.
— Lev Vygotsky
Many nonprofits rely on grants alone.
— Leroy Hood
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
— Leonard Peltier
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
— Leo Tolstoy
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
— Leni Riefenstahl
I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.
— Lemmy
I'm so accustomed to being alone.
— Leighton Meester
My father, naturally, spoiled me when I was allowed to see him - flying to New York from Washington, alone, in those terrifying planes. He'd take me to Danny Kaye movies and rent a dog for me to walk in the park on Sunday - a different dog every Sunday - and then to have butterscotch sundaes with almonds at Schrafft's.
— Lee Radziwill
I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.
— Lee Atwater
I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.
— Laurieann Gibson
When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.
— Laurie Colwin
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company.
— Lauren Weisberger
I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
— Lauren Bacall
I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
— Laura Robson
I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
— Laura Linney
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
— Laura Bush
I am not afraid of being alone and single.
— LeToya Luckett
I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.
— Leonard Cohen
You won't find me at parties or the openings of movies and I don't hang around with David Beckham and Kanye West. So the paparazzi leave me alone, which means that I can do my shows, write music and then live a normal life.
— Leo Sayer
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
— Lena Horne
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
— Leland Stanford
I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.
I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.
Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.
— Leah Busque
The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
— Laurie Helgoe
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.
— Laurence J. Peter
They say that it's rare, and for the longest time, I felt alone being a victim of TSS. It not only left physical wounds but mental ones. I battled PTSD and fell into a dark depression after what happened. I melted into my bed, and life just sort of stopped.
— Lauren Wasser
We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.
— Lauren Alaina
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.
