Nancy Allen Quotes

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

I think you function much better when you trust people and when you've got a sort of relationship where you can develop ideas within a framework.

You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.

You will succeed only if you first build trust. It's like wolves. They show each other their necks and don't bite.

When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

It's a very good thing to have a group that stays together and understands each other as well.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.

No matter whom I've worked with, they've always created a great bond with me.

When you know someone, and you get to work with them, automatically there is this comfort zone which comes in.