Timothee Chalamet Quotes

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

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

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

There's not as many people as one would think you can be completely open with.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.