JON TENNEY

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

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

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.

I feel very connected to New Jersey.

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

I was close with some of my old professors.

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

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

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

Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I feel very connected to New Jersey.

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