Trapped Quotes

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.