Ben Mendelsohn Quotes

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.

I am a family person; we are a big family, and I need my friends around me.

Family counts for a lot in this world.

I have a legion of friends and the best ones are my immediate family, which is very cliched but true.

I would be lost without my family.

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

Our lives are shaped by those who love us

I don't have friends outside of my family.

At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty.

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

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

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.

Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

My priorities are my friends and my family.

I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.

I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences.

The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.

My family is the most important thing in the world to me, too, before anything else.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.