David Thewlis Quotes

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

We all have relationships - I've had relationships in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'That was a mistake.'

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

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.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am.

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

You gotta mature, you know.

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one's past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.