Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.
We have a two-week rule. We're never apart for more two weeks. Just not being separated for Jurassic periods of time seems to help. And no children probably helps a lot.
Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you'd left off, whether it be a week since you'd seen each other or two years.
My marriage has worked because I am not around much.
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.
Distance makes everything beautiful.
I've seen bands split up for five years and do nothing. That sounds great to me, but it just hasn't worked out that way.
Part of the reason why some of the relationships I've had in my past worked for so long is because when you're making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don't even see the person.
From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.
When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.
One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.
Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.
I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.
People always say to me, 'Well, how can a marriage last when you're away as much as you are?' And I always say, 'Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder.' That time apart from each other has actually strengthened our relationship.
For me, if I'm away from my son for more than 48 hours, I'm crabby.
Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.
I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods.
Don't ever spend more than three weeks apart. Two and a half weeks, maybe three, was the longest we ever did.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.
I couldn't imagine that my career could have contributed to the demise of my marriage, but I do think neither of us realized that when you spend 60 to 70 days a year face-to-face, no marriage is going to survive. No relationship is going to survive.
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
