Ed Helms Quotes

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

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

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

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.

The quarterback-receiver connection is a constant work in progress. You're always working on your communication on the field, off the field.

Me and Sheamus have a natural chemistry.

When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.

We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.

I think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.

As I had always said, it takes two people to work hard to create the chemistry.

People fall in love when they are working together constantly.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

I think good chemistry starts with mutual respect.

Collaborating with your wife is amazing because you are doing something together with a person you truly love and know and discover things about her in that process which you have never had discovered on other circumstances.

Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people an actor and a director. You just know whether this is someone I like to be with whose interaction with me I believe in.

I feel like I've had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I think it's gotten stronger every year that I've been here with the Patriots. The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.

What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.