Intimacy Quotes
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.
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You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
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Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.
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But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.
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If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
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Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
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Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.
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I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.
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Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.
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Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
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It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.
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The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
