Jenny Agutter Quotes

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

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

I'm in a long-term relationship with Diego Serrano, and I'm very happy. He's the worst influence that I have ever had in my life, and I love him for it.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

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

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

Marriage changes everything. I want full control over my life. When you share your life with somebody else, you can't have full control. You have to give a lot of control away. You share each other's lives.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

I have a very intense marriage.

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.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

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.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.