Caroline Polachek Quotes

Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?

People fall in love with their identity with their own position and are often reluctant to leave.

I think a lot of people are in relationships because they've been in them for a long time and they don't know how to end them.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Every relationship has their ups and downs, and, you know, when you start having more downs than ups, you know, you gotta take a look at your relationship and be like, you know, 'Is this something that I'm supposed to be doing?'

I always thought I needed the support of someone in a long-term relationship to make me whole.

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

I've been in relationships and had long-term boyfriends since I was 13, so I've always had that emotional pillar of support. I'd got to a point where I felt like I couldn't live without that.

If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.

I think, as an actor, you are constantly playing other people. I would like people to get to know me on a more personal level.

It would take some encouragement for me to accept other people's opinions on how I should present my work because my work means a lot to me.

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

I think it's hard to leave a relationship that you shouldn't be in. It's a self thing and not really realizing your worth and how much you deserve in love.

I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.

I had been wanting to peel back the layers of who I am for so long, but I felt like I needed to prove how solid my work is first.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I'd got into the habit of needing that security, love, and acceptance from a guy to make me happy.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved.

I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to worry about missing each other all the time. But when I think about that, I get sick. Physically sick. Like I seriously throw up. I need to be with him, even if I can’t, like, be with him.

She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.