For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.
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Related For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. SHAH RUKH KHAN I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh... RACHEL MCADAMS I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it. DAVID ALAN BASCHE I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's tru... ARUNDHATI ROY I've been writing 'Green Lantern' for a long time, and one of the reasons I've enjoy... GEOFF JOHNS The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've ... RITA MORENO I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about.... ELAINE STRITCH I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I exper... DEEPIKA PADUKONE I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love drivin... BILLY BEANE If you can find a group of women, any age, who are supportive and kind and love you, that's the ... KATIE LOWES If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thum... BARRY EISLER I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of peop... ALAN ARKIN I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge wit... RIAN JOHNSON I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo... JONATHAN WINTERS I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ... PATRICK CARMAN Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all t... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment th... STEVE ANTIN I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you... RALPH BROWN All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, cert... RUPERT FRIEND I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all... SATYAJIT RAY You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm... LYNN COADY It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' ... CHANNING TATUM Most of the films I've tried to make I've ended up making. And they don't necessarily go... DAVID MACKENZIE I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. An... AVICII I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that mov... IKE BARINHOLTZ Barcelona is one of the best cities in the world. I love it there. I love Big Sur. It's stunning... MEGHAN MARKLE I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and thin... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I'... SEAN ASTIN One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews. EDDIE TRUNK Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-ni... SAM SMITH It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producin... DREW BARRYMORE I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which ... DAVID SUTCLIFFE I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback. LIAM JAMES I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can... DAVID DUCHOVNY Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, wit... GAVIN O'CONNOR You can't really fake chemistry: either you have it or you don't, and you can't have a r... STERLING K. BROWN I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're ... GAYLE FORMAN I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can h... ELISABETH SHUE To me, I'm sort of like Dorothy in 'The Wiz.' It kind of parallels my life. It's a s... KENNY LEON There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic lov... TRACEY EMIN I can't think of anything I regret. Everything I've done, I've enjoyed doing. I've h... EUGENIE CLARK I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most peopl... REEVA STEENKAMP I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn&... TAYLOR SWIFT I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for... T. J. PERKINS 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals wi... RUTH REICHL We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and... JOHN LENNON I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that bu... JUAN PABLO GALAVIS I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think... ALISON MOSSHART You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the s... GORDIE HOWE I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But with the demands of the ... ROMA DOWNEY I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love tho... TAYLOR LAUTNER There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all o... PATTY JENKINS A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and... LINDSEY VONN I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't... R. A. SALVATORE I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Througho... LILY COLLINS I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for somet... JANE GOLDMAN I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&... TOM CRUISE And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had.... GLENN TIPTON Acting-wise, I love Helena Bonham Carter. I love Kate Winslet. I love Angelina Jolie when she was ... JESSICA WILLIAMS A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories... STAN SAKAI Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe... PAULO COELHO When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where f... BYRON HOWARD I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any gh... JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being... JACK LOWDEN I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In t... OM PURI It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because ... PATTI SMITH I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've alwa... IRIS APFEL I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. SAM WORTHINGTON I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu... R. KELLY Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I'... ATHOL FUGARD I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or wh... JAMIE OLIVER One of the greatest birds I've ever had is called a 'Turducken.' A chicken inside of a d... GUY FIERI One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it wo... SALMAN RUSHDIE 'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were i... JOSH HUTCHERSON It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the envi... FRANK OCEAN Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's c... JENNY MCCARTHY However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ... RUMI I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love. CALISTA FLOCKHART I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or travel... PICO IYER Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, a... JIMMIE JOHNSON I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories wit... MICHAEL IRVIN All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I lov... KEIRA KNIGHTLEY I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ... SOPHIE OKONEDO I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've l... EVE BABITZ Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so muc... RAM DASS I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can&... LAURIE HOLDEN No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having gi... LEE IACOCCA As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put the... PETE HAMILL I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though... DANNY HUSTON I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that... GRANT GUSTIN Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 ye... DARYL HANNAH I've got to be able to get my time off whether it's just enjoying my house or the peace and ... LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-we... MICHAEL CUDLITZ Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, ... BILLIE PIPER I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I ... TAMMY BLANCHARD I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK... KARAN JOHAR I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more.... AMANDA PLUMMER
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I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and def... SYDNEY SMITH To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. SYDNEY SMITH The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least t... SYDNEY SMITH He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go ac... SYDNEY BRENNER A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ... SYDNEY SMITH No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. SYDNEY SMITH What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? SYDNEY SMITH Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The grea... SYDNEY SMITH Good friends are good for your health. SYDNEY SMITH Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. SYDNEY SMITH One of the best methods of rendering study agreeable is to live
with able men, and to suffer all th... SYDNEY SMITH We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into th... SYDNEY SMITH Oh, herbaceous treat!
'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
Back to the world he'd turn hi... SYDNEY SMITH We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. SYDNEY SMITH The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. SYDNEY SMITH A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the ... SYDNEY SMITH To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart. SYDNEY SMILES It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting t... SYDNEY SMITH Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an... SYDNEY SMITH It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. SYDNEY SMITH How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after ... SYDNEY SMITH No furniture is so charming as books. SYDNEY SMITH It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite dir... SYDNEY SMITH Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyo... SYDNEY SMITH Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. SYDNEY HOOK I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of e... SYDNEY SMITH He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. SYDNEY SMITH The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo... SYDNEY SMITH Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising wher... SYDNEY SMITH Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born b... SYDNEY SMITH What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? SYDNEY SMITH Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency whe... SYDNEY SMITH Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but... SYDNEY SMITH Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being... SYDNEY SMITH Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our... SYDNEY SMITH I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs? SYDNEY PFIZER Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent... Be what Nature ... SYDNEY SMITH A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their g... SYDNEY SMITH The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. SYDNEY SMILES Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. SYDNEY SMITH Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friends... SYDNEY SMITH Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious... SYDNEY SMITH Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good con... SYDNEY SMITH It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is ge... SYDNEY SMITH The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply ... SYDNEY SMITH Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. SYDNEY SMITH Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my f... SYDNEY SMITH Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep ... SYDNEY SMITH A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would... SYDNEY SMITH I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. SYDNEY SMITH Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather t... SYDNEY SMITH Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned... SYDNEY SMITH His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes... SYDNEY SMITH He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. SYDNEY SMITH The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else... SYDNEY SMITH Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did
it exist? I am glad I was not bo... SYDNEY SMITH Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled ... SYDNEY HARRIS Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no m... SYDNEY SMITH Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. SYDNEY SMITH Gardens are a form of autobiography. SYDNEY EDDISON He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended yo... SYDNEY SMITH I love mixing and matching patterns, styles old and new, feminine and masculine and drawing inspirat... SYDNEY WAYSER Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? SYDNEY MADWED If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your uni... SYDNEY MADWED Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this all... SYDNEY SMITH During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA coul... SYDNEY BRENNER As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. SYDNEY SMITH I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glasswar... SYDNEY BRENNER As I understand it, Lacey has dismissed all of the fact checkers. SYDNEY SCHANBERG The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ALGERNON SYDNEY That is the best Government, which best provides for war. ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin... ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest. ALGERNON SYDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio... ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta... ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate... ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ... ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate. ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th... ALGERNON SYDNEY In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology... SYDNEY BRENNER I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. SYDNEY SMITH It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding. SYDNEY SMITH That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and
sulphur. SYDNEY SMITH I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords
to stop the progress of reform, rem... SYDNEY SMITH Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that... SYDNEY SMITH The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can ... SYDNEY GREENSTREET It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. SYDNEY SMITH Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten... SYDNEY SMITH I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. SYDNEY SMITH My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was
actually twelve miles from a lemon. SYDNEY SMITH Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of ex... SYDNEY SMITH A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good co... SYDNEY SMITH The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact ... SYDNEY SMITH