Quotes About Ensemble

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

When you have an ensemble where characters pair off so easily, it becomes extremely isolating in the story world. You can end up with two actors who have not seen each other face to face all season long.

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.

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

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

I have a lot of shoes.

It's a lot of people's goal to be the lead in a movie, and that was never my goal. I just wanted to be the third banana in an ensemble comedy.

As good as I am, I'm nothing without my band.

I've never been known for being a team player, but I've adjusted to being part of a big cast and it has worked out beautifully.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

I'm the kind of actor who truly believes that every play is a company play.

Every symphony, for example, is a sonata for orchestra; every string quartet is a sonata for four strings; every concerto a sonata for a solo instrument and orchestra.

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People aren't paying to see the Kevin McHale show, they're paying to see the cast of 'Glee.'

I just felt good working with peer actors around my age.

It really doesn't matter whether it's an ensemble cast or it's a lead or what is perceived as a commercial or non-commercial or an offbeat film. None of that would matter, what really matters is the story and who's telling the story.

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

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ensemble. In fact, I was in eight Broadway shows as a dancer. Seven of them were original shows. That's how I learned to create something from the ground up.