Daisy Lowe Quotes

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

Damaged people gravitate towards damaged people.

I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.

If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

I think I'm prone to not being a good guy in relationships.

I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.

It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

A lot of times, we get into relationships, and we go in, and we take our old ways. If we take that old baggage into something new, it will never work.

I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

Some therapists have proclaimed: 'Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.'

Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.

I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.

When we are angry with someone, we empower the person we hate the most in that moment to make us stressed out or even sick. That's not smart.

My greatest fear for my child is that he marries a woman exactly like me.

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

I'm always helping out girlfriends, and then I'm wondering, who's going to look after me?

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.

I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.

I know what my sweet spot has been. It's personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.

I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she didn't know where to put it was both heartbreaking and interesting to me.