Quotes About Relationships

We don't need to take the world by storm. We just need to make our customers happy, and when we do that, the word spreads.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

One of the saddest things in this world is to see a child grow up hating one of their parents because they only got one side of the story.

I think that's why most people listen to me - it is relatable. Who doesn't have a drama-filled story with an ex? We all do.

When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.

The great thing about Pete and Peggy's storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There's so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it's so loaded. So you honestly don't have to do anything.

I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my husband, me with my mom or my siblings.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications.

Gossip is essentially storytelling: storytelling about people whom we know.

Girls, in particular, use storytelling to establish hierarchies, a pecking order. There is a sort of jockeying of who is in charge of shared history.

I would love to make a film, because storytelling happens only in movies. I would explore relationships in my movies. Maybe, the journey of a child from a broken home, or a relationship between a single father and his kids.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

I ran straight through the boundaries a married couple should live by.

How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?

When was the last time you saw a straight black love story without any guns?

He comes to London and gets a job in a nightclub, a gay club, where he's known as Straight Dave by the bar staff - and no one believes he's as straight as he claims to be. He meets the daughter of the club manager, and he has an affair with her.

As soon as I finished 'Doctor Foster,' I obviously wanted to run straight home to give my husband a big cuddle.

I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.

How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.