Good Friend Quotes

You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.

I met Carl Sagan quite a few times – a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.

When I was growing up, I idolised my father. I thought his ghost followed me around the house. I had been told how he adored me, how I was funny, just like him. Because of our lovely Catholic upbringing, I secretly assumed that he would eventually come back, like our good friend Jesus.

Sharon Osborne, my good friend, sent me to her doctor to have my eyes done in L.A., and it made me look 10 years younger.

John Cena’s match with me, the one that kind of got him hired with WWE, I remember they were there to look at John, obviously. He looked great – he was like the blue-chipper – and John was a good friend of mine, so I had no problem whatsoever helping him kind of highlight and do his thing.

Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

I think California has some very good looking women… I know Stephanie Seymour is from San Diego, and I know Josie Maran – who‘s my very good friend – she‘s from Northern California. So I think California produces some good looking women, for sure.

I remember being really hurt by a relative of a good friend of mine when I mentioned that someone was a great wrestler – she said, ‘What do you mean? How can you be great at wrestling?’ I stopped them and said, ‘Do you think that what I do takes no talent whatsoever?’ She realized how hurtful those words were.

I mean, I’m willing to do anything with Chris Chulack – he’s one of my favorite directors I’ve ever worked with, and I just think he’s a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony’s, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford and converted to Buddhism.

Nobody was ever better than Roddy Piper was when it came to interviews. He didn’t pull no punches. He wasn’t afraid of nothin‘ or nobody. He was a trip, and he was good people, too. He was a good friend. A damn good friend.

I’d like to believe that I’m a good son, good brother, good uncle, good friend and a good human being.

Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.

Tim Armstrong is a good friend.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Varun Dhawan supported me a lot. Varun is very hard working and a good friend as well.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

I think the term ‘friend’ itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term ‘good friend’ is overused. Adding the word ‘vital‘ provides a clear definition of what we mean.

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.

See, my relationship with Salman is of mutual love. But just because he is a good friend of mine, I wouldn’t want to use him for a cameo in my film or ask him to endorse my film. That is not me.

It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.

I’ve had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

Michael Phelps is a good friend of mine, so I’m very supportive of him.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you’ve just seen them last week.

I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.

A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity‘s aid efforts in Syria.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.

I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.

Tito Ortiz and I, in that short time that we worked together, we created a very nice connection. We became a family. I learned many things from him as he must also have learned from me. We talked as friends, and a good friend always wants your best.

Judi Dench told me to shut up once. I was probably going on and on about something, in the way that I do sometimes, so she was being a good friend.

This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I’m working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I’m working with another really good friend.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

I think it’s very hard to find a good friend. That’s why I’m so lucky to have two sisters, because they’re my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They’re stuck with me.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

If life is going well, I watch quality things like period dramas and ‘The Blue Planet.’ But other times, I’ll trawl through anything Freeview has to offer. I do believe TV can ruin your mind, but it can also be a really good friend.

I love working with Chris Carmack – he’s a really, really good friend of mine.

John Bonham was a good friend of mine. I knew him a bit as a kid. I hung out with him quite a lot.

Daniel Bryan is a friend of mine. It’s sort of funny that the relationship that you saw between Team Hell No on screen, it sometimes goes the same way off screen as well. He is a great human being and good friend of mine, and frankly, the Team Hell No stuff helped me.

I’m a good friend.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

AR Rahman has always been a good friend of mine.

I’m sure those rumors are spread, but it’s just ah – we’re really good friend. We’ve been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we’ve been together in school. We’ve gotten really close, but I don’t know about the more than friends stuff.

I’m a really good friend; I’m terrible to date.

I’ve kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

I’ve always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I’d have to get it all together, but I’d like to go on ‘The Tonight Show‘ and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends – your own chosen family. There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.

Prince Paul is another good friend; he’s like an older brother. He’ll criticise and be brutally honest with you. That’s what I like about Paul.

Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He’s one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven‘t had a drink now for many years.

With Clinton, there’s no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he’s also a good friend.

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn’t true.

Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn’t bring him to Belfast anymore.

When really writing I’m not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I’m incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I’ll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot‘s license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh’s autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

You don’t have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

I have a good friend who’s a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

Jay Leno is wonderful and a good friend, but it will always be the Carson show to a lot of people.

I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar – while I got stuck playing Sandy.

I feel like it’s big now with the passing of Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Mac Miller, who was a good friend of mine. That just showed people, like, it could happen to anybody. Just because you have fame or money, you’re not immune to negativity and depression and stress.

If you’re going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone’s not being a good friend to you and isn’t treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

There’s times when you’re having dinner with a good friend and you’re in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I’m adjusting to all the attention.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good friend of mine, and I love what he is doing for Hugo Boss these days.

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is now a good friend, and the thing that strikes you about him is that he’s all about details.

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he’s a good friend.

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don’t ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

I enjoy meeting not only contemporary children, but yesterday‘s children as well. It’s nice to talk about the experiences we shared, they tell me, ‘You were a good friend.’ That’s the warmest part.

I lost a good friend a few years ago, and it happened quite suddenly. Any event like that leaves you with questions. Would a phone call have made a difference? Did the person know that you were there for them?

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it ‘Celebrity Life Magazine.’ I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.

Robbie James, who was a real good friend of mine, died on the pitch at 40.

Paolo Maldini. He was tough, tough, every time we played against each other. And I played against him many times. He’s a very good friend.

Victor Rasuk is a good friend of mine.

Nagesh Kukunoor is my rakhi brother and a very good friend. He gave me ‘Dor’ which was an epic movie in my life. I owe it to him for such a good break.

Personally, I am very glad that Jeremy Borash is here in WWE. He’s got a great mind – a very creative person, a good friend of mine – and he just deserves to work here.

One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head… but I was also friends with jocks. I was a ‘floater,’ I guess you could say.

Kanye has been a good friend for ten years. He flew back from London to Los Angeles for 24 hours just to go to my wedding.

My love for pottery started completely by chance when a good friend of mine recommended I take a class. When I sat down at a pottery wheel, it was like love at first sight. It was so deeply meditative, and I felt connected right away.

Coach Richt is a good friend of mine. I respect Coach Richt and worked for him for a year and respect the man he is and respect what he stands for.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

Chris Martin‘s a good friend of mine. I’m actually Apple‘s godfather. He’s an old friend and we’ve been mates for quite a few years now.

Dallas is obnoxiously positive. He’s been a good friend to me.

I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.

I like to think I’m a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to share those good times with others.

I don’t love being Leader of the Green Party. It is not really something I’d recommend to a good friend. It’s not fun.

Chelsea Handler is a good friend of mine, and I always was inspired by the fact that she was taking her life and turning it into these ridiculous, raunchy memoirs. She really has a talent, and she’s a great writer. I was inspired by her trajectory.

‘m just going to be a good friend to my kid. One thing I definitely want to change is that whole ‘I don’t want you to make the same mistakes‘ mentality. My dad didn’t have much money growing up; he didn’t have much of an education. He forced that on me, and I didn’t want it.

Bill de Blasio is a very good friend. I remember bringing up a whole caravan of cars to help volunteer on his Public Advocate race.

I’m passionate about being true to myself, sending good energy to the people around me, traveling, staying inspired, being a good friend, being a good daughter, being a good sister.

Pedro is a very good friend and I like to catch up with him after training.

I want to show people that I am that good friend and the person that a lot of people actually come to confide in or even, just, to be around that good energy, because that’s what I’m all about.

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

Jeremy Scott is a good friend, and we love his stuff.

Would a good friend, a smart friend, encourage you to do something as dishonorable as not pay a bill you’re morally and legally obligated to pay? I don’t think so.

Jaden Smith is a good friend of mine. We’ve got that song that just dropped on the ‘Rich Forever II’ tape, and we got a couple other songs that we have in the cut.

We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region‘s wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

My daughter’s name is Neesyn Dacey but everyone calls her Dacey. Her mom chose Neesyn and I chose Dacey after she was born. The mother is a good friend of mine who I was seeing a while ago. We are no longer together.

After I quit dancing, for a while it felt strange not to be in pain. It was as if an old friend – not a good friend, but a presence, always tagging along – had left me.

So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.

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

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, ‘You draw the people to you,’ and I guess that’s what I do.

The deaths of such skilled fliers like my very good friend Sean Leary make me see that if there’s ever a question of safety, it’s always better to wait or walk down.

I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I’d send him a helmet, he’d send me an autographed platinum record. I thought that was a pretty sweet swap.

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I’ve been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

I’ve found a very good friend and a philosopher in Trivikram.

Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.

I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree. That was a remarkable pathway to prosperity that sustained generations of working families.

I’m one of seven kids, and I love being around a bunch of siblings because I think it teaches you independence, and it teaches you how to grow up quickly and also just be a good friend and be a good sister.

I don’t really… go to ‘the opening of an envelope.’ I don’t really turn up to all the events, you know what I mean? If I’m involved, I’ll go, and if there’s a good friend who needs support, I’ll go, but otherwise… I don’t go. I’m probably just a bit like my grandparents; I like staying in.

I have had lots of friends who’ve been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Since being diagnosed with Asperger’s, I’d been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We’d been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it’s a very slow process.

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

A year back when I finished ‘Kick,’ people asked me about my next. I told them that the thing which fascinates me is getting the three Khans on board. Salman is a good friend and I have good equation with Shah Rukh and Aamir. If I get a go ahead, I would definitely love to do it.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

Bob Fosse, the choreographer. is a very, very good friend. He has helped me enormously.

When I set up my first restaurant, I was so inspired by Wolfgang Puck, who is also based in L.A. and is now a good friend of mine, and the way he would engage with his customers and greet them personally.

My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We’re building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.

I had never thought of hosting, but a really good friend of mine said, ‘This is the most empowered platform to speak to young people about the issues that you care about, which is why you’re in this in the first place.’ So I was like, ‘Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense.’ And so that’s what I started doing.