Jon Tenney Quotes
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You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.
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When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There's a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share your past with somebody. It's really empowering when you're reunited with people who share that.
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It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.
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In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.
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In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.
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I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.
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I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'
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Everyone has a different colour as an actor. And the composite of all those colours hopefully creates something that's fun to watch.
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I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.
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Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.
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I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.
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All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.
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Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.
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That's something that's really rare and special and what any actor would love - to have somebody that's specifically writing for you.
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Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.
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I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.
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I was close with some of my old professors.
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Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.
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I feel very connected to New Jersey.