Jon Tenney Quotes

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I like to play all kind of roles. You can't do same stuff every time as it becomes boring.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I do my best creating on stage.

I'm an entertainer, so in whatever form I entertain... The thing about being a rapper is that you have more control over your form, whereas with acting you have to compromise a lot.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

What's fun about being an actress is you change all the time.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

Acting is probably the number one team sport in America as far as I'm concerned.

I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

I like to do a lot of different things in acting.

I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.

There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I think there is no world without theatre.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.