Mandy Patinkin Quotes

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Marriage seems to be predicated on protecting a very deep and intimate form of mystery.

No one can understand how close a marriage actually is. You just don't know: with a husband and wife, they have a special connection.

You want there to be some magical answer that will just make everything clear and easy to understand, and that's just not the way love works.

Getting married and really digging in with another human being can point out your greatest strengths and your greatest weaknesses.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.