Patricia Arquette Quotes

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

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.

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 have learned that it is imperative that I make time for my friends, that they demand to be as much a part of the mix as my family and my work, and perhaps more so, because they are not an inevitability.

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

My friends back home are very supportive.

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

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 think I always wanted to be everyone's friend.

There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind.

I'm happiest when I'm with people who have known me for years.

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.

I'm not going to let everyone in, but when I do open up, I trust you. I let you fully in. My close friends, my family, and everyone around me can really appreciate it, and sometimes it's not the easiest to open up to people.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.

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

The most important thing is that you have really good friends and family, and when you go back to them, it's like 'what?'. You carry on as who you are.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.