Rachel Weisz

I’m a bit superstitious about certain things, like what shoes to wear. If I wear the wrong shoes, the whole day may go wrong. Or if I don’t get to the bottom of the stairs before the door closes – stupid little things like that. Then I also have all the normal ones, like don’t walking under ladders and so on.

[on Darren Aronofsky] I guess the first impression was that I’d been a big admirer of his work, and then I met someone who you’d never have put with that work. There was something very refreshing about that. I thought I was going to meet someone who was very intense and weird.

There’s a lot of contemporary actresses I admire, but there’s practically no one who’s made a color movie whose career I’d want … I don’t feel very modern at all.

If it’s bad dialogue then I would think of nothing worse than the camera lingering on me and the person I’m talking to for fifteen minutes.

I’ve known Daniel since I was 22. We did a play together in London many years ago.

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I’ve never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

My last divorce was in ’68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn’t work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you’ll never end up with a nag.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

He didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I’m convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.