Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

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

My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

The only stable bond of union is goodwill.

My eighty percent friend is not my twenty percent enemy.

Respect is the first requisite to good fellowship.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

Pete Krause has become a bit of a mentor to me. If there's anything that I'm struggling with right away, I'll go to him and I'll ask him questions. We've formed a really great relationship.

When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things. And people encouraging you to try to do things.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius with an attention to detail, his ravenous hunger for all aspects of knowledge that might feed into his work. But the major thing that makes him Sherlock is his relationship with Watson - their friendship. For me, that, I guess, is the biggest side, the more interesting side than the genius.

You get yourself out there and you work hard, and you hope that word of mouth carries and one day somebody will actually step up to the plate and say, 'I believe that you can do this.'

Success equals goals; all else is commentary

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.