I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.