Top 292 Intimate Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Intimate Quotes from famous people such as Aaron Pedersen, Sana Khan, Ali Fazal, Chris Carmack, Jenna Wortham, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I think we need to take time out in our lives to realig

I think we need to take time out in our lives to realign ourselves with country, to realign ourselves with what we have and the beauty of what we have. I think we’ve all just got caught up in this way of life that doesn’t allow us to be intimate with it any more.
Aaron Pedersen
I don’t know why there is so much noise on doing intimate scenes.
Sana Khan
I have always felt that just to show love, you don’t have to make two people do intimate scenes. That is not the idea of ‘I love you.’
Ali Fazal
I have these songs that I’ve been playing for so many years. They’re so intimate and close to me. And these are songs that probably a major label would not be interested in – some of them, anyway – interested in putting on a record.
Chris Carmack
I’ve long been interested in how technology mediates desire and the way that our phones, an extension of ourselves, foster intimate interactions that feel so personal and deep, despite being relayed through a machine.
Jenna Wortham
It’s a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they’re concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.
Mike Mills
I found there are a lot of advantages to being on a small budget and having a small crew. You get some very intimate performances and naturalistic cinematography.
Gareth Edwards
I kept these games pretty intimate. You know, with this much money on the table, with this much risk, you wanted to make people feel safe. They don’t want to feel like they’re part of a spectator’s sport – well, the winners do, but the losers do not.
Molly Bloom
I’m not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory’s Girl would be number 4 on my list.
Bill Forsyth
But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It’s not completely me because there are parts of me that aren’t on that song, that are on the album.
Vanessa Carlton
As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we’re both writers, we’re having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.
Natasha Trethewey
Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it’s magic. It can be. It really can be.
Trisha Yearwood
A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don’t necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.
Jason Flemyng
I don’t like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.
Gisele Bundchen
‘Memory.’ ‘Race.’ ‘Murder.’ That’s what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I’m grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
Natasha Trethewey
Music can connect people on an intimate level. What Josh and I are trying to do is represent anyone who has some of the questions that we have.
Tyler Joseph
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Virginia Postrel
It’s funny how intimate it feels to get a text.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
If I were assigned poems I suppose I’d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.
Thomas Lynch
Though we love the big exposure, our true love and passion is for the intimate club shows.
Chad Gilbert
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
John George Nicolay
Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
Emma Roberts
I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone’s ear when they’re driving.
Tim Curry
Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.
Cary Fowler
I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Sigur Ros, Desmond Tutu, Barack Obama, and the girl next door. By definition, in short, my leaders are the ones who think in terms larger, and more intimate, than any country.
Pico Iyer
I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I’m always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.
Ben Howard
Listeners can expect to feel very relaxed during the listening experience of ‘Beyond Waves.’ The songs are very lyrical and extremely intimate, so I feel like you’re going to need to be in a quiet room when you hear them, at least the first time.
Domino Kirke
To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as ‘Lord of the Rings’ is an epic. But ‘The Hobbit’ isn’t an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it’s full of adventures and excitement, they’re on a different scale to those of the bigger book.
John Lanchester
I still like the idea of having an intimate experience with a movie, but I love watching stuff on my iPad. It’s close, and I feel like I’m a part of it, so maybe that makes more sense in some cases.
Catherine Hardwicke
Songwriting is such an intimate thing, and with people you don’t normally write with, you’re naked.
Tony Kanal
Cinema is a slice of reality. You have school and college kids being intimate and marriage is not even in question and that is what they show in cinema.
Amrita Rao
When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good

When I get intimate with my paintings, it’s a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
Ronnie Wood
Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don’t know exactly why, but it’s such an intimate, almost religious experience. I’m very careful with who gets to cut my hair.
Jens Lekman
I’m not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I’m an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I’m proud of.
Shawn Colvin
I personally don’t lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I’m very intimate with what I’m saying and why I’m saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.
Susan Kelechi Watson
When I was about, I’d say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets… So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.
Michelle Rodriguez
The most wonderful thing about having a small business is that every person we dress gets a really intimate process.
Emilia Wickstead
We got to play Madison Square Garden before. I mean, that was like a dream. There is something about the lights and the huge arenas that is really special, but nothing can quite compare to those intimate shows where it’s sold out, and it’s a thousand people.
Maria Brink
Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.
Jon Heder
We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
Deeyah Khan
The reality of recording, it’s one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right, you’re exposing yourself, and you’re expressing your emotions, and those are the key attributes to a big record that really connect with people.
Scott Borchetta
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
Emily Dickinson
‘Beale Street’ is such an intimate story that I think it requires intimate connections between the artists that are a part of it.
KiKi Layne
When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
Sean Penn
It’s very intimate. There are certain moments where it feels like it’s just you and the lens. It’s something that has been a very stable, consistent thing in my life.
Saoirse Ronan
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper
When you handwrite something, you’re writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.
Jenny Han
It’s quite different, the kind of love you get in a smaller club and the kind of love you get on a big proscenium stage. It’s quite different. I like both of them, but I’m in love with the smaller, intimate club.
Nickolas Ashford
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
Havelock Ellis