A Quote by Jon Tenney

Mike Nichols got me my Equity card.

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Jon Tenney
American - Actor
Born: December 16, 1961

I worked with Mike Nichols. First time I worked with Mike Nichols, I just really loved this man.

Richard Jenkins

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

Christine Baranski

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

Christine Baranski

I got my equity card, found my agent, and then I got a part on 'Gilmore Girls.' That turned into a job that kept giving - they wrote more for me.

Todd Lowe

The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!

Jonathan Groff

I got my Equity card playing Helena in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' and I think that's the first job I got that was an offer.

Betsy Brandt

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

Carol Kane

Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.

Jack O'Brien

I got my Equity card and agent before I ever went to drama school.

Ray Fearon

I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.

Bill Pullman

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'

John C. McGinley

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Andrea Martin

While I was at NYU, I did a play at The Public called 'The Forbidden City,' where I went in as an understudy and got my Equity card.

Chandra Wilson

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

Colman Domingo

I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Carol Kane

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