Restricted Life Quotes

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

When I was fighting at a weekend, I would be in when my friends were out. I never had time to go out and go off the rails.

While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves, a select few excel.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.

The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.

Most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.