Intimacy Quotes - Page 6

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

To achieve the intimacy between performer and audience in storytelling, I feel like I have to let the audience in on my emotional state, not just, "Here's a story I'm going to tell by rote, and you're just going to listen to it, because I'm such a wonderfully entertaining fellow." It's the idea of sharing enough of myself that it's not just all about, "Look at me, look at me." There's an element to it of, "You understand what I'm talking about, right? You've been in this place that I've been in," which makes it a richer experience.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.

In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their psychological side. By the time you get to set, it just creates such a sense of trust and intimacy between the director and the actors. It's really, really great.

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

The truth within moves as intimacy of being.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

Ronald Reagan memorably combined intimacy with distance.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.