Gary Kemp Quotes

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

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

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.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

I haven't had a terrible relationship, but I've always been the type in a relationship to give too much and not speak out about problems I had or problems that were bothering me. I just wouldn't stand up for myself in any way if I was upset about something.

Friends have warned me that I can be a bully in the kitchen. With every fledgling relationship, I'm anxiously aware that the simple act of cooking alongside my new paramour can unleash havoc.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

Does my behavior in respect of love affect nothing? That is because there is not enough love in me.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.