Andrea Seigel Quotes

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

I'm just mystified and fascinated by women, and I'm still single. Hence all of that, and the fact that I celebrate them so much, I understand that I'm unevolved at this exact moment to share my life with one. I wouldn't inflict that upon anyone yet. But, I'm getting closer.

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I'd cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn't say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I'd found a way - I'd understood who he was, where it would end - five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.

I'll be the first one to tell you if some girl turned me down.

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think.

In some cases, newlyweds want so badly for things to be perfect that they ignore warning signs, both in themselves and each other.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

For me sometimes you have to accept that people can not always be what you want them to be.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Why do you think you are missing something you never had?