Cynthia Nixon Quotes

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person.

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.

I would love to do a film with Shah Rukh Khan or Salman Khan where I also have a great role.

I felt like Jason Behr and I had such a unique chemistry. He just walked in and we started reading together, it was just there

When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

The great thing was that as soon as Aidan and I met we clicked, we instantly knew we were going to get along and the more time we spend together, the more we’ve developed a brotherly bond that’s helped us figure out the dynamic of our characters.

There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to happen.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

There was something so cool about being able to carry this film [Into the Forest] together [with Ellen Page] and to play off of each other. It was like having the most worthy tennis opponent.

Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

Just met a boy, just met a boy when he could become my little problem.

That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

Sparks fly, it's like electricity.

There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.

is love at first sight truly possible?

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.

When you care about a guy beyond just the field, that's when the chemistry becomes really special.

Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.