People don’t really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art – or falling out of love or being heartbroken – drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we’ve sort of stopped talking about it.
I think it’s easy for me to connect to some people, and I don’t know if that’s the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.
Well that’s actually happened to me a couple of times… but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less… I guess you could say less aggressive.
I’m constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.
Used to do a lot of falling in love with people, almost in the street, and imagining that there would be no obstacle to a happy love story other than finding the ‘right person’.
It’s worth pointing out that no one faults a male protagonist for falling in love. What is it about a boy needing a girl that seems to round out his character, while a girl needing a boy can be dismissed as pathetic?
‘Anna Karenina’ is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It’s gossip, rubbish – on the other hand, it’s the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Definitely, the most important part of a love story is the chemistry between the two actors because a love story is about a guy and a girl meeting and falling in love. You don’t see love coming across if the chemistry is not there.
I think falling in love is always a surprise, right?
I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to ‘SNL’ and falling in love with some writer on ‘SNL,’ of getting married and living in New York.
There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.
I just think falling in love and being married completely changes your life in so many ways.
My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn’t anything about ‘Oh, I’ve always been gay and I’m breaking the chains.’
I didn’t have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
When I get really passionate about something, the audition process is really strenuous and hard on me because I feel so much for the project, and I become so attached to it. It’s hard. It’s stressful because you want it so badly, and you’re crafting this character that you’re falling in love with.
I don’t mind falling in love with an actress. I don’t have any reservations.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don’t fall in love as many times as you think you’re going to. And then when you do, it’s really special; it’s really important.
With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It’s not just heartbreak or falling in love; there’s so many different ways to look at it.
I don’t think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I’ve fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
I’ve spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there – falling in love, stuff like that.
Most of us have been in that situation where you’ve been falling in love with somebody who didn’t feel the same way. It’s not a nice situation.
I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn’t hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune. I wanted to write a pretty standard romantic comedy where nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets sick.
I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he’s put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.
I look at people for their souls, and I can see myself falling in love with anyone after getting to know them and developing a relationship.
Flamenco is the reflection of the street. It’s that thing that’s so beautiful, that comes directly from the people. It has so much truth, tragedy, falling in love, falling out of love, flamenco has it all. You can learn so much, that’s why it’s so incredible and so beautiful.
You meet your soulmate, and you’re like, ‘Well, this is it. This is the feeling of falling in love, and it’s the most intense it can ever be.’ Then you have a child, and it’s like – it’s huge!
When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love.
The entertainment industry is always targeted at young people. Understandably so, as they are the key consumers. The young are the ones who are falling in love, starting out in life; older people aren’t. Nobody thinks, ‘Now I’m going to write a film about an older person.’
Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it’s not yours anymore. It’s laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
During the ‘ballad’ years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.
In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will – which I’m saying in quotes.
I was always falling in love at a very young age – kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
Had I not been in a relationship, I would have no issues falling in love with a midget. I wouldn’t mind as long as she loves me and takes care of me and my family.
My grandmother used to really love fashion, and she always had Chanel No. 5 on her dressing table, and Chanel bags. That’s when I really started falling in love with the brand and fashion in general.
When Stephen was first diagnosed, we weren’t actually going out together, but I was already falling in love with him. He had beautiful eyes and this amazing sense of humour, so we were always laughing.
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
The story that I’m telling in ‘Homecoming King’ about falling in love, these are things that happened to me – that actually happen every day in our backyards and in our communities.
Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
As a band gets more successful, there’s a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
There are only certain kinds of people who are shown falling in love. It’s by and large always heterosexual, it is either thin or fair people. It’s not like that in the real world.
I really liked falling in love with cities that I had actively disliked before.
Conventional Indian cinema is about people falling in love. They sing, they dance.
I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.
What’s really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
Hearing Jimi Hendrix as a little kid and falling in love with everything that he did on guitar rewired my basic nature. To me, that was a normal thing that you should do: you should strive to be as innovative as Hendrix.
Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it’s almost disgusting to fall in love.
Falling in love. Being in love. It’s something I dream of, something I want to feel.
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That’s why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.
