J. B. Smoove Quotes

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

I think I always wanted to be everyone's friend.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

I could never be with a woman who felt like she needs to change me.

Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.

Friendships naturally shift over life. We have different friends for different times in our lives, and sometimes it's not the best idea to hang on to a friendship to try to make it work if it's an unhealthy connection.

I have evolved over the years, just as we all have, but I definitely have stayed true to who I am.

I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

For me, friendship has always been the most accessible of relationships - certainly far more so than romantic love. Friendship, I learned, provided a buffer in the interplay of emotions, a distance that made the risk of intimacy bearable, a space that allowed the other person to remain safely another person.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.

I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!