A Star Is Bored Quotes

“Travel is a wonderful alternative to suicide”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“My attorney told me there are a bunch of questions I’m not supposed to ask you, so I’d like to go ahead and get those out of the way,” she says.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“They're all little things until one of them kills you.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Life only exists in your mind. Everything you see, everything you hear, all of it, it goes through your eyes and ears and is processed by your mind, and the mind can lie, can be sick, can get it wrong”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“You are your best teacher”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Beautiful people, they're never really alone.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Take your broken heart and go make art. - Carrie Fisher”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“She helped my relationship with Reid grow stronger with lessons—If you want to really know someone, travel with them. Reid is the one I now sit beside on planes. But the seat he occupies will always be hers, really. She literally paid for it. I used all the airline miles I racked up with her to buy the tickets.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“And the more he chews in my ear, the less hunger I have for answers, for continuing. “Gotta jet!” he barks mercifully. “Have a blessed day!” he shouts, a toilet flushing in the background as he hangs up. What the fuck is he doing? God, I hate him.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“I see a million lives, where it seems a short time ago, there was barely even one”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“We're all victims of what others think of us, of our identity based on our employer. It doesn't matter who you really are, it's how you're perceived.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Therapista says judging others is really judging yourself.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Therapista says hating others is hating yourself.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Therapista says a wonderful, healthy life doesn’t include a requirement to be constantly entertained. She says what we really want is peace of mind, peace in being. Maybe another word for boredom is peace.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“Waiting for what? For me?” Kathi asks, smiling kindly. “I’m not a leader. I’m a follower. It might look like I’m a leader because I’m in movies, but I’m just a follower who’s in movies and I happen to have other followers following me but we’re just all confused followers following followers following followers and it’s a clusterfuck of following. There’s a line of people following me and thinking I’m leading them and I’m just, like, trying to find somewhere to take a nap.” “Oh,”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored

“I’m not exactly suicidal-suicidal—I don’t have a plan or anything—but suicide has always had a spot on my vision board. With my shitty news job and pathetic, lonely life, I admit I think of suicide like some people think of going back to college.”
― Byron Lane, A Star Is Bored