William Boyd Quotes

The woman I'm attracted to won't be based on what I write down on paper. It's going to be what I feel.

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

I took one look and fell, hook and tumble.

I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my heart away complete

Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn't so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

is love at first sight truly possible?

If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.

I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Sometimes I'll read a script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct.

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.