Tyson Gay Quotes

I'd rather not marry an actor because there isn't room in the house for two egos.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a flat overflowing with books I was reading for the part.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I've been wanting to have a child since Dashiell was 1, but I was working too much, and there was a lot going on in my relationship.

I don't know if I could date a single dad. It would depend on the guy.

Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.

If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.

I think that dating other musicians can be complicated at times. Especially when they think highly of themselves.

If you've ever been a person who is running a successful brand or business and with someone who is doing the same, but in a different career path, you know that times can be tough. You're both always away. You're exhausted at the end of the day. Sometimes the relationship isn't being put first, but does that mean, 'Oh, you call it quits?' No.

As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.

I have been fortunate in my career to play a lot of lead roles. The downside to that is I don't have a life outside of the show. I go on lockdown even with my wife if the show is really difficult and I am having vocal problems.

I've been very selfish and the women in my life have hated that because of my work ethic. I try not to bring my work home but the next day I want to go prepared. So okay let's have a few moments of camaraderie whatever... okay great! I go work on the script.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Well, well,” he said. “Five days a week isn’t enough of me? Had to give me an evening, too?

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

I can take about an hour on the tower of power, as long as I gets a little golden shower.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.