Joe Pantoliano Quotes

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

The actors have to be able to feed each other and inspire each other.

When you work with good actors, you feed off each others' energies.

If you get the right cast, half your work is done.

I get very excited when I get a chance to work with actors who are as passionate as I am.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I've ever worked with.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

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