Ensemble Quotes

The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the time I was a kid; obsessing over, 'This joke doesn't quite work, we've got to get this right.' I was always like that, whether I was a member of a six-person ensemble or whether I'm the center of a show.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

I love being part of an ensemble.

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

It's kind of like, I love doing tons of different things. The only thing I hate is not being in ensembles.

I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

A lot of times, working in stand up, youre by yourself ,and so you just have to rely on yourself only but I like working in an ensemble.

We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.

It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable

I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together. [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.

A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

When I'm on a red carpet I want somebody to feel something when they look at what I'm wearing, when they look at the entire ensemble, whether it be nostalgia or excitement, you know?

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.