Jon Tenney

“I think most actors will say they always feel like they'll never work again.”

“I was close with some of my old professors.”

“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.'”

“I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.”

“Everyone has a different colour as an actor. And the composite of all those colours hopefully creates something that's fun to watch.”

“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.”

“Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.”

“All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.”

“That's something that's really rare and special and what any actor would love - to have somebody that's specifically writing for you.”

“In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.”

“Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.”

“Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.”

“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.”

“You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.”

“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.”

“Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I feel very connected to New Jersey.”