Public Intimacy Quotes

There's nothing more romantic after not seeing your husband for four months than to have our first night back together, on a Broadway stage, with 12 million people watching.

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

It's only when I'm on stage that I really come to terms with the fact that other people are hearing my most inner, darkest thoughts.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.

You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!'

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough.

Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person.

It's just a very weird thing to have a relationship that's commented on by the world wide web.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.