Love Quotes

I'll look at the script and go, 'This is great. Ooooh, and I love this character, [but] I'm not thrilled with the way it's written.' But you can see how the character should work. So I usually do a lot of re-writing to make sure the character comes through my own eyes.
– Eugene Levy
In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part.
– Eugene Levy
There was nothing inherently, bitingly satirical we wanted to do about the world of dog shows and dogs owners. The characters in Best in Show loved their dogs the same way real dog owners love their dogs when they put them in dog shows. We weren't sending anything up there. We were just reflecting something that was real, and we just followed our characters.
– Eugene Levy
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
– Astrid Lindgren
Those of us who had a chance to ask questions should have charged that much for speaking lines. It was like making love in Carnegie Hall.
– Peter Lisagor
The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
– Friedrich List
Love, in my bosom, like a bee, Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet.
– Thomas Lodge
A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death.
– Paul Lombard
I would dearly love to hook-up with Mel C again. We've spoken about it and she's really keen on the idea too. The Spice Girls were massive in America, but it would be nice for Mel to have a hit of her own there. Maybe this will be the one.
– Lisa Lopes
I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when I'm lonely I need the noises of destruction When there's nothing new.
– Nick Lowe
I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.
– Matt Lucas
People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that.
– Matt Lucas
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.
– John Lyly
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
– Thomas Lynch
I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.
– Natasha Lyonne
I feel very comfortable in the UK. I could see myself living in the Cotswolds. I love it. I've had some great experiences. This is my fourth film here, and people seem to accept me. It's always nice to be accepted and welcomed.
– Andie MacDowell
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
– Andie MacDowell
I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the dynamics of how couples behave, and I would love to continue finding projects where I have the chance to address those kinds of issues. And sometimes there are going to be moments in my life where I will probably want to play some wild or sick character just to shake things up. I can't just be that nice, reserved guy all the time!
– Tobey Maguire
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
– Og Mandino
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
– Thomas Mann
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
– Thomas Mann
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
– Katherine Mansfield
I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society.
– Marilyn Manson
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
– Mickey Mantle
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
– Mao Tse-Tung
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
– Imelda Marcos
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
– Imelda Marcos
I love to play football. I'm looking forward to a good year. Win a Super Bowl - that's all I want to do. I'm professional enough to give 110 percent. I want to win. For myself. the team, and the fans. I feel I've been a leader for a lot of years on this team. I'm going to do my part and play as hard as I can.
– Dan Marino
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
– Dan Marino
I'm a quarterback, not a cook. I'm not a restaurant manager. Throwing is what I love to do. It brings me the most fun and the most pleasure. When someone's in tight coverage and you throw it by the guy who's covering him---like a fastball---to complete a pass. And the guy knows. He had great coverage and he still couldn't do anything about it.
– Dan Marino
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
– Dan Marino
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
– Jacques Maritain
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
– Jacques Maritain
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
– Jacques Maritain
He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in.
– Edwin Markham
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
– Penny Marshall
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
– Judith Martin
I probably was the proudest Yankee of them all. And I don't mean false pride. When it's real on a team, it's a deep love-pride.
– Billy Martin
I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.
– Billy Martin
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
– Harriet Martineau
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
– Harriet Martineau
You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.
– Queen Mary
If you love the truth, you'll trust it-that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
– Abraham Maslow
Glasgow is always the best city to play though-I love playing there.
– Dave Mason
We are a cult in most places, and I like that. Japan has a lot of love to give the Bluetones. When we go to Spain, France and Germany, it's not big budget swanky time!
– Dave Mason
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
– Henri Matisse
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
– Andre Maurois
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
– Rollo May
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
– John McCain
You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
– Mary McCarthy
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
– John McCarthy
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
– Bryant H. McGill
If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
– Ian Mckellen
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
– Mignon McLaughlin
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
– John McLaughlin
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
– Marshall McLuhan
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
– Lord Melbourne
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
– H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
– H. L. Mencken
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
– H. L. Mencken
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
– H. L. Mencken
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
– Karl A. Menninger
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
– Karl A. Menninger
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
– Karl A. Menninger
I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
– Debra Messing
I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.
– Debra Messing
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
– Debra Messing
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
– James A. Michener
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
– Arthur Miller
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
– Arthur Miller
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
– Arthur Miller
If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.
– Dennis Miller
There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.
– Dennis Miller
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
– Hayley Mills
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
– John Milton
Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
– John N. Mitchell
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor, unassisted.
– Wilson Mizner
I love playing villains.
– Alfred Molina
I love the sound of my own voice, and there's no one else there to give you notes. It's great. When I'm on my own, I think that I'm Lawrence Olivier. It's when I'm working with other people that I realize how bad I am.
– Alfred Molina
I love being a freak. It's great!
– Brian Molko
Most of these are love songs where I'm trying to come to grips with relationships. They're frequently told from the point of view of ex-lovers, so at first it may seem like I'm being arrogant, but actually I'm eating humble pie. I'm cutting open a vein and letting it bleed for you.
– Brian Molko
I'd love to play a gangster but I think people might say I looked a bit too young and cheeky to play a character who'd just blown someones head off!
– Dominic Monaghan
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
– Claude Monet
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
– Eddie Money
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
– Marilyn Monroe
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
– Michel de Montaigne
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
– Michel de Montaigne
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
– Ricardo Montalban
There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
– Ricardo Montalban
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
– Charles de Montesquieu
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.
– Sun Myung Moon
Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.
– Sun Myung Moon
People who sow a selfish life here on earth will reap hell thereafter. But this is not the result of the condemnation of God. One cannot reap heaven if he lives and acts against God. God is a God of love; by having humanity suffering in hell, his heart is aching. He cannot enjoy this. God's desire is to ultimately liberate even hell.
– Sun Myung Moon
The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.
– Sun Myung Moon
Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.
– Demi Moore
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
– Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
– Thomas Moore