“Acceptance doesn't mean predictability. Sex isn't always for 11 at night - - it's also 'meet at a hotel room at noon'. What you feel during dating can exist at home, if you don't suffocate it.” IfsFeelsMeanHomeNightSexRoomsAcceptanceDatingHotelNoonHotel RoomsPredictability Author:Esther Perel
“People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down.” PeopleWayYearsDifferentEmotionalHundredIntimacyIndifferenceDifferent WaysCheatingNeglectContemptCheatRefusalLack Of Respect Author:Esther Perel
“Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.” PeopleYearsDesireLossPowerfulHavensConversationIllusionSafetyAffairFlatsComplacency Author:Esther Perel
“On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love.” MatterPassionLossLevelsSecurityEssentialsDegreesIllusionTradeConstantTrading Author:Esther Perel
“In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner.” HomeLastsDesireWorryMysteryAmountPartnersTensionUnpredictableLosing YourselfSmall AmountsElusiveness Author:Esther Perel
“Sex is about where you can take me, not what you can do to me.” SexCan DoTake Me Author:Esther Perel
“A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.” WayLittlesLeftBehindsConnectionsLeft BehindIceberg Author:Errol Morris
“I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.” ThinkingSometimesHardDoneHaikuFormatExclusion Author:Errol Morris
“I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.” WantedActorsGrowing UpGrowingObsessed Author:Sebastian Stan