Quotes About Relationships

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

Everybody I'm working with now is a friend. And I would be very, very remiss to work with anybody in the future who has not shown me who they really are.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

My favorite procrastination is to make the choice to have valuable times with human beings that I care about instead of holing myself up alone to get my work done.

Garry Hill is a pleasure to be around, and his work is a rewarding reflection of my career.

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.

I make my relationships at work.

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.

I've had job stability for years at a time. You really develop great relationships with the people you work with.

When I had my child, I planned on being with the woman I had him with for the rest of my life. If that doesn't work out, you have to see things from a different perspective.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.