Bill Condon Quotes

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality

All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end it's all about your soul and who you are and have you connected with the people.

For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

The camera looks into your soul.

The majority of my job is being an open channel, and if I'm not being very authentic with who I am in myself, then it doesn't feel like I can dig down deep and get to really vulnerable stuff, or stuff I have never felt before.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.