William Devane Quotes

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.

Love is different at different stages of your life.

After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.

I've learned that we all change constantly. It's rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Well the beauty of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men - the sons, the fathers, the husbands - because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

Free love never works.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.