Actor Connection Quotes

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

There are a lot of things I love about acting and one of the things I love the most is, here you are taking words off a page, working with someone you might have met just a week before, and somehow you're creating a moment that separates itself from space and time. You feel an incredible rush when you have that moment with another actor. You can feel it bounce off one another. Every take you do can reveal different things that were hiding. And things outside the story get revealed to you, too. It's an incredible way to work and to experience a story.

Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.

When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.

In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.

I do like when you find a true personal relationship with any of the characters, you like to make that honest connection. And every once in a while, there's that glimmer where you got that line in where something happens, where you get to really talk.

I like a direct relationship between actor and audience.

Cary Grant, said, 'I heard you were on the lot and I just had to meet you.

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

I love working with an actress that you can just look at them and be able to react with your eyes and not have to do much else.

What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.

For me, you have to like the person you're playing. When you don't, it's kinda hard.

Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.

I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

We became so close [with Rachel Evan Wood], in the process of leading up to making the film [Into the Forest ]. We were saying goodbye to each other, wrapping the film, and we knew we'd be seeing each other again.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.