Imran Khan Quotes

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.

I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

Apl introduced me to all the Pinays he knew, and so I married one.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about.

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.

I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end, we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.