Jorja Fox Quotes

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

For as long as I've been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.

I did a TV movie with Tom Cavanaugh. He was the perfect partner, I learned so much from him. I would do anything with him again.

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

Jayne Houdyshell and I - when I was 17 years old - did summer stock together at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, IL. She was the leading lady of the company, and I was an intern.

I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.

It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

I've always loved acting with adults versus like the whole High School feel.

Jennifer Aniston and I have always just really gotten along well... I was just fortunate to be a good fit for parts in her films.

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.