Stephen Moyer Quotes

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a mature or even quasi-sane way. Instead, I would hang on resentfully, praying that my doomed beau would end things first and spare me the displeasure. To add hindrance to hang-up, the men I chose were usually just as stoic as I was.

I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.

I think I deal with my anger toward my relationship or about my relationship or about my friendships or my family - I deal with it on stage in a passive-aggressive way, and that can be very harmful if it gets back to them, which it always does.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

My problems were not what ended Creed.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

'The Wonder Years' family was the kind where everything seemed to be bubbling and simmering with the occasional explosion. There were a lot of things that went unsaid in that family. In my family, everything is said - on the surface, you scream and yell about it, and three minutes later, you're all friends.

No matter what I do, you're going to be upset by something.

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.

When you're in a marriage, you can't leave just because you're arguing all the time. But it does stuff to you that you don't realise at first. It damages you, and you start thinking the worst of people.

If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.

It's hard being with a man, it really is. They just don't 'get' you all the time.

We know that fathers find asking for help harder than mothers.