Natalie Portman Quotes

Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'

I make most of my friends through my extracurricular activities.

But you base everything on people you know.

There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he's eaten at my house, or I've eaten at his house.

My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.

Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

I tend to have a lot of guy friends.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

I have many close male friends.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything.

I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.

A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.