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Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.