Instant Rapport Quotes

I met Muhammad Ali in Toronto when he was still Cassius Clay... We got to talking and it was like we knew each other for 50 years. We just clicked.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

We met in the summer or fall of 2001. I had never met Kate [DiCamillo], though I'd heard her name, and I think she knew of me too. We were laughing within a few minutes, I mean really, furiously, laughing. So we were off to a good start.

[Our first dinner with Alison McGhee] was at Figlio's [in Minneapolis]. I know exactly what I had, because it was so good: their three-cheese ravioli. But I can't remember what I said to Alison that night that made her laugh so hard. But she got me right away and I got her right away.

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

The combination of us two was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. You meet someone, and you just work, you have chemistry on stage, and writing.

There are certain people you feel like you've known for a long time from the moment you meet them, and that's exactly how it was with Gaga.

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes of language before people begin to trust you in a play.

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.

Sometimes, you connect with people instantly, or you take time.

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 we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

When two people meet, and it's the right combination, it does ground you suddenly.

If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connection to the character. You know who they are, you know how to play them, and there is instant enthusiasm. Then, at the audition, you don't have nerves because of that natural affinity.