Jayne Mansfield Quotes

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

'Blue Valentine,' Derek Cianfrance's emotional gunslinger of a film, tears into the topic of moribund marriages with an honesty that's hard to come by in Hollywood these days.

I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages.

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.