Matthew Weiner Quotes

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships.

I just do not understand all of these guys that get married and then want to go spend all of their time with their buddies.

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

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

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

It's lovely being a parent and being in a strong marriage with somebody who is your best friend.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

My best friend is my husband.

No one goes through life thinking that they're the best friend of the lead character.

If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them.

Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

I'm fascinated by adult women who don't have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you're a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you're so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?

I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.