Carey Mulligan Quotes

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

The dynamic of how women and men are meant to interact, for those of us who are looking for a heterosexual relationship, is very broken, and it leads to a lot of really dysfunctional relationships, abusive and otherwise.

I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

I think it's very hard if you love someone to walk away from a relationship that isn't healthy.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.

Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life.

Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.

I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.

I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

I'm not proud of having been married -I've had five affairs, all of them real wingdings. I've enjoyed every goddamned minute of them, but sooner or later I've outgrown every one of them, and when I did I got fed up and threw them out. If they can't keep up with me, the hell with them.

I'm a bad lover. Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

Loveless moments are to be avoided.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Focus on nurturing your healthy relationships so that they are even more loving and fulfilling.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have a healthy relationship with your friends - and to be honest, if they "know you", pardon the pun, then they'll understand that you need to spend time with your partner. If people are pulling at you from both sides then maybe there's something a little off balance within the relationship. But it also depends on how you are as a person. You need to set the guidelines quite clearly, and say "I need my friends im my life. I got with you, but my friends are part of me also".