Theatre Quotes by Jon Tenney

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.

— Jon Tenney

Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.

— Jon Tenney

You always want to know you have somebody at the helm who knows what they're doing.

— Jon Tenney

It's always difficult to work out on location, away from home, but that's the actor's life. You go where the work is.

— Jon Tenney

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'…

— Jon Tenney

In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really…

— Jon Tenney

In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.

— Jon Tenney

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my…

— Jon Tenney

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

— Jon Tenney

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

— Jon Tenney

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

— Jon Tenney

That's something that's really rare and special and what any actor would love - to have somebody that's specifically writing for you.

— Jon Tenney