Anthony Jeselnik Quotes

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.

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.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

Sex is a two-way treat.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

When a woman says the connection is gone, don't tell her how hot she is. A connection is more than someone's appearance.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

A relationship will be futile if it's based just on physicality. Intellectual stimulation is a must for me.

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

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

During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me… Just the other night she called me from a hotel.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be there when you get back.

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.