Rod Serling Quotes

My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.

I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.

But you base everything on people you know.

I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.

Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a lot of girlfriends but only a few very, very close ones.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

As friends go it is less important to live.

You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.

It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.

Jennifer Garner and I are very close.

Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women, but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.