Lee Grant Quotes

When you can have a relationship that's like that to where everything is out in the open, you are up front, and there is open communication, it makes for a great relationship.

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

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

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

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.

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.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

You can't be afraid to be honest and to be yourself. We all have imperfections and fall short at some point. Showing your human side creates a sensitivity, openness and trust. That's the beginning of the demise in a relationship - not being honest and not being you.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

If you have a built-in level of respect and trust and openness to essentially be yourself, it allows for a deeper uncensored communication [with your partner].

But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being.

It's important for a guy to know and understand me before he can even think about taking things to the next step.

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

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

My mother and I always had full adult communication.