Norman Mailer Quotes

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

Don't sell yourself to fall in love, With those things you do.

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

People enjoy photos of me by myself, and people also love to see how in love I am - it's a really beautiful thing to share with my fans, actually.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

Sex makes you get real.

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

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

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

It can be so terrifying to open yourself up to true love. That love can be with your mate, with your child, with yourself, because we are ultimately such vulnerable little creatures in this world.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

I don't know that sex always has to have feelings, but I think that friendship always does.

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.