It is widely believed that no one can love you in the same degree as your mother and there is this general perception that Indian men are Mama’s Boys.
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that’s just given.
‘War Eagle’ is like ‘I love you.’
You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it’s not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can’t worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That’s it.
If he wants you over for the holidays or can’t wait for you to have dinner with his buddies, it’s a sign he wants them to love you as much as he does.
People can love you, or they can hate you. It really doesn’t matter.
You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can’t love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can’t hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
It is important to have face-to-face meetings, so when the players have things on their mind we talk. It is important to have a good relationship with your players. If they like you and love you – and the other way around – you will be successful.
I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
I think it’s so isolating to be trapped in your mind like that, when you doubt yourself, you doubt everything you’ve ever known. You doubt your family love you. You doubt your friends care for you.
When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said ‘We love you,’ she would dust it off by saying, ‘Your work makes them happy.’ She never let it go to my head.
I can’t explain chemistry. I really can’t. I haven’t got a clue what it’s all about. It just happens. It’s like falling in love. You can’t explain why you fall in love or explain why it’s this particular person.
You can’t shut down. You can’t say, ‘What can I do to make this go away?’ You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you’re in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day, you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.
People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it’s going to be your last moment. I was the kind of guy who would never talk to my wife on game day. Now I’m the guy who’s like, ‘I love you.’ I want my children to know I love them because I don’t know what’s going to happen out there.
Whatever we try – to be rich, to be happy – death is unavoidable. It doesn’t matter how much money you have; it doesn’t matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it’s all heading that way.
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you’re a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
It’s a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that’s very difficult, really difficult and very brave.
Sex is a part of love. You shouldn’t go around doing it unless you are in love.
If my kids came to me and said, ‘I’m gay,’ I’d say, ‘Son, I love you.’ That’s never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.
If your heart is in love, you can do anything.
I think everyone knows that when you find someone you love, you want to make them proud.
Democratic politicians have disliked things I’ve written, Republican politicians… if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.
When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
With faith you can do anything and with love you can do even more.
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington’s main theater.
If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.
If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
Journalism doesn’t have to be your first love… or your only love. You can come to it in desperation, because you can’t think of anything better to do with your life, that it’s this or the abyss. But once you get going… it helps if you love it.
To me, the thing love and cinema have in common is that they are about seeing. The greatest act of love you can give to anyone is to see them exactly as they are. That’s the greatest act of love because you wash away imperfections.
Even in the deepest love relationship – when lovers say ‘I love you’ to each other – we don’t really know what we’re saying, because language isn’t equal to the complexity of human emotions.
If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that’s the best. I have a group of girlfriends that I would lay in front of a bus for. They’ve picked me up through really, really bad times and I can definitely say I’ve done the same for them.
The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, ‘Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.’
People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I love you, love your work.’ And then the next sentence is, ‘I loved your brother.’ John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.
You’re completely putting yourself on the line when you’re in drag. They’re either going to love you or they’re going to hate you, but the most important part is having fun.
Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.
If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.
Father’s Day used to be the only day you’d say I love you to your dad.
Nothing is ever perfect. You have to make compromises and sacrifices, and it won’t always be as glamorous as the fairy tales may suggest. But I do believe there is a person out there who will love you for all your imperfections and messiness. And those kinds of people will be with you for a very long time.
Write down everything you feel about money – ‘I love you;’ ‘I wish I had more of you;’ ‘I don’t trust you;’ – Then, look at the ones that aren’t quite so pretty and figure out how you can shift them to be in a more positive, grateful space.
I’m a wonderful disaster. So are you. We’re all a mess. We’re in this culture that says take this pill and you’ll be happy, go on this diet and you’ll be thinner, have your teeth whitened, people will love you more.
If the people that love you are the people at your side on your last day, and there’s not a soul in that room that has any bad words to say about you, well, I’d say Heaven awaits you, my friend.
You know what’s dope about social media, the Internet, and stuff in general? It’s that you never really realized before how much love you get, and now you can see people around the country wearing your stuff or wearing your face.
You have to understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether or not you can see it. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know that you’re not alone.
Everyone should feel comfortable in their own skin. Whether there are social standards set in place that act against that, it doesn’t matter because the people that love you for who you are are going to love you always, and you should love yourself always.
I never heard ‘I love you’ as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.
It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it’s in something like divine love. You know, that kind of search for something that’s not quite in your grasp. It’s a very powerful place to explore as an artist, because it’s not necessarily sad.
Let Me Love You’ is one of my favorite records from my catalogue. It’s one of those songs that just happened magically.
When you win everything is great but when you’re losing nobody wants to know you – except for the people that really love you.
I love you, C-3PO. I love the original trilogy. But when R2-D2 runs away in the first ‘Star Wars,’ instead of stopping him or going to tell Luke and Uncle Owen, he hides. It’s so good. He hides! He has to wait for Luke to come and tell him R2-D2 ran away. What a dork!
