Marriage & Partnership: Relationship Quotes

"I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels"

Fred Ward, Actor

"It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally, because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things"

Ruth Pitter, Musician

"I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog marking his territory or something"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"It's like a prehistoric reflex, you know, going out and getting the meat and bringing it back to the cave. You feel you're supposed to make it better, but more than likely she's asking you to tell her how you feel"

Fred Ward, Actor

"I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of"

Lisa Kudrow, Actress

"Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still"

Judy Davis, Actress

"I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene"

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actress

"To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females"

Ida Lupino, Actress

"The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool"

Leah Remini, Actress

"Men stop trying after a while and get lazy"

Leah Remini, Actress

"There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development"

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Politician

"I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother, but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink"

Andrew Morton, Writer

"Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along"

Jody Watley, Musician

"Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer"

Jeremy Piven, Actor

"When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up, relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever"

Jody Watley, Musician

"Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City"

Melissa Joan Hart, Actress

"Men tend to be selfish"

Caprice Bourret, Model

"I find that the majority of the actors I've worked with are extremely sensitive people and very spontaneous people. That's why I always say I'll never date an actor, because they're in love with you one day and the next day they're not"

Ellen Muth, Actress

"It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet"

James Payn, Novelist

"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears, and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself"

Bruce Greenwood, Actor

"If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference"

Gary Lucas

"A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person!"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person"

Eric Braeden, Actor

"A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away"

Brenda Holloway, Musician

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard"

Anne Spencer, Poet

"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships"

Christina Applegate, Actress

"Now learning a bit more about footballers, I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support"

Anna Friel, Actress

"Until very recently, men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office"

Anita Diament, Author

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