Milan Kundera Quotes

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

I know I could probably fake love for a couple of days, but I couldn't fake it for more than three or four days, and neither could you. I don't think any of us can.

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Love is telling someone their hair extensions are showing.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

If truth does not lead to falling in love, it fails.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.