"Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between"
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The line “two very different people” is doing quiet PR work. It preempts the tabloid instinct to turn friendships into rivalries or soulmates, while also flattering the relationship: connection that survives difference feels earned, not staged. Moore’s rhythm is classic actorly: a long, conversational sentence stitched together with commas, as if he’s improvising honesty in real time. That looseness is part of the performance; it makes the memory feel unpolished, therefore true.
Then he lands on the real subject: time. “Different parts of the world” nods to the itinerant, dislocating life of celebrity - relationships maintained in gaps between shoots, premieres, and reinventions. The payoff is the wistful miracle of reunion: “as if there had been no years in between.” It’s nostalgia, but not the sentimental kind. It’s a statement about a particular class of friendship - forged under intense, artificial conditions (sets, scripts, public personas) yet somehow resilient when the spotlight moves on.
Moore isn’t selling intimacy; he’s selling continuity. In an industry built on disposable partnerships, he frames endurance as the rarest form of chemistry.
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| Topic | Long-Distance Friendship |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moore, Roger. (2026, January 16). Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/tony-and-i-had-a-good-on-and-off-screen-89779/
Chicago Style
Moore, Roger. "Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/tony-and-i-had-a-good-on-and-off-screen-89779/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/tony-and-i-had-a-good-on-and-off-screen-89779/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.



