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

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

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

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

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

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

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

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

OVOXO will always be there.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Your friend is your needs answered.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

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

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

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

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

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 do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.