Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

- Diane Lane

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

- George Santayana

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

- George Eliot

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.

- Gene Luen Yang

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

- Garry Shandling

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

- Edgar Quinet

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

- Eric Berne

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

- Errol Morris

'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

- Eleanor Catton

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.

- Dominic Chianese

I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

- Adrian Tomine

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

- Colin Trevorrow

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.

- Colin Trevorrow

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

- Charlotte Gainsbourg

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

- Charley Pride

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

- Benny Green

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

- Brit Marling

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

- Anna Chancellor

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

- Armand Assante

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

- Alexander McCall Smith