Jessica Chastain Quotes

If you hold me, I will let you into my dreams.

Always before, I just said no, left it solidly there. I waver now. I want to share everything with him. Want to know what he knows, feel what he feels, share the same space he's in.

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

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

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

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

I've had relationships with people from all over the world, but there has never been enough time in a day for me to have anything other than just close relationships. I've never been one to give myself over to anybody. I don't know what is wrong with me, but it never happened.

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

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

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

To love is to be vulnerable.

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.

I believe love opens people up.