Quotes About Relationships

At one time, my mother did plan to divorce my father when she found out about an affair he had with a model, the sister of one of my brother's girlfriends.

I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

I've never even come close to having a one-night stand.

I've never jumped back into a relationship and I've never had a one-night stand, so even if lockdown hadn't happened, I don't think I would have been with any guys.

I can't tell you how many thousands of small moments that I've had with employees in our company that have been nothing more than a one-on-one. I'll see the baggage-services person, he or she is by himself. I'll pull them off to the side and have a 15-minute conversation about their history, their life, that kind of thing.

While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.

I don't claim to have led a saintly life. There have been a lot of one-sided love stories in my life.

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.

I'm a one-woman guy, so dating multiple women was hard.

A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. It's a never ending study, once we have learned to love, we will learn to live. Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me!'

I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis.

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years.

I talk about everything - politics, the economy; the news will give you more material than you can ever use. But relationships? That's the ongoing battle. You talk about men and women, and across-the-board everyone can relate to that.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

It's a deeper connection when you meet someone online and talk to them every day.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.