Philip Seymour Hoffman Quotes

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

I talk to my friends and, you know, they all seem to get relationships that aren't right. You kind of want someone who is not at your beck and call but loves the idea of being in a relationship and what that entails.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I want to marry Arline because I love her - which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

I don't believe that if you love somebody you have to possess him, live with him or marry him.

I think marriage is beautiful, but I have mixed feelings about it.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.