Drew Barrymore Quotes

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself.

After my performance 'The Artist is Present (2010)' at MoMA in New York, many scientists became interested in why so many people who sat across from me began to cry. I was incredibly moved by this experience also, and was very curious to know what happens in our brains when we spend time not talking, just looking at one another.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

Some guys find eating face-to-face weirdly intense. But sitting on the same side of the table allows both intermittent physical contact and eye contact.

Eyes open, then," I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

As Logan walked towards her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.

I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.