Alexander Skarsgard Quotes

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

Trust is the first step to love.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

I've had relationships with people from all over the world, but there has never been enough time in a day for me to have anything other than just close relationships. I've never been one to give myself over to anybody. I don't know what is wrong with me, but it never happened.

Friendship is a personal issue, and it should remain that way.

I try to make really close bonds with people.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

I take friendship very seriously.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

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.

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

I need my man to be my homie.

Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.