Quotes About Relationships

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

I have always been interested in how strange it is, when you date someone and break up, and then you both move on and continue your lives. What do you owe them, if anything, for that time intimate time spent together? What does that time mean, if anything?

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

Anyone who ever gave me confidence, I owe them a lot.

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

Being an aunty is the best - exactly what I wanted from this - someone to have ownership over but no obligation to take care of.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

I'm extraordinarily lucky to have so many friends across such a diverse group of people. One day I'll be at Oxford, the next at some complete idiot's lunch.

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

Women want to be entertained. They want value for money from a man. You have to have the whole package.

I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.

Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.

I made a pact with myself when I was 12 that I would only work with people who make me happy. I choose happy.

You can meet somebody at a club. You can meet somebody at a restaurant. But maybe that person is not on the same page. Maybe that person is like, 'I'm starting out, I don't want to get married now.' Or, 'I don't want to have kids.'

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

Pain is love.

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.