Tim DeKay Quotes

Acting takes a degree of mutual trust and respect.

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

Whether you want to be a good actor or singer, you need to be responsible and professional - and you have to learn to work well with other people and be a team player.

Acting, for me, is giving to your co-actors.

On the sets, I am just an actress, and I am okay with whoever I am working with.

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I've worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you're all working together to make the best movie possible.

I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

We won't let you down. We will work together and successfully complete this mission.

The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end of the day, you're trying to put team first and make each other better.

I don't care who's No. 1 on the call sheet or how big my trailer is. I care about the work. I don't care who gets the laughs. I just care that the laugh comes.

You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

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

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will work, hope that you will connect with the other actors. I was fortunate on 'Modern Family' and 'The Procession.' They are great people, very easy to like.

I'm looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.