Jon Tenney

Professions :

Actor

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.

you childhood together people

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

early kid credit young

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.

feel you lucky long

I feel very connected to New Jersey.

new i-feel feel connected

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

doing know you want

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

feel never think work

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.

me you luck love

Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.

card got me equity

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

just-because will just you

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

everyone something colour fun

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

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

person you chance character

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

you special writing love

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.

lose feel gym experience

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.

close old some professors

Ian Mckellen

Adhir Kalyan

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Bert Lahr

Alan Arkin

Alan Alda

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