Joseph Dougherty Quotes

The greatest enemy to love is your pride

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

Love is hard.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

I love the conflict of relationships on 'Justified.'

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only bring Billy and Maddy together in terms of proximity and give them a common goal but that would also drive a wedge between them. And nothing fit the bill quite like the arrival of some children.

We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

Yelling between people in love is normal.

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

Love is never not going to be a problem.

Any band that you have, any relationship in your life, is gonna come with moments of tension.

Regardless of whether you're in a gay or heterosexual relationship, you're going to go through your ups and downs.

It's hard to be stuck with people that you love, when nobody trusts

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.

Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.