Paul Rust Quotes

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

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

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught.

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

I think if somebody doesn't have the time to work on a relationship, then they shouldn't get into it.

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

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

When it comes to relationships, it's nice to have something that is your own and not everyone else's. That's not part of my job. I never stood up on a podium and said, 'Vote for me - I'm perfect. I'll be this for you and never do anything wrong.'

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

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.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

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

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

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.

I'm definitely one of those chicks who want to be in a relationship. I need somebody who can make me laugh and entertain me.

Timing is everything with relationships.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.