Quotes About Ensemble

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

Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

Three Red Funnels and an Orchestra

You can dress down or dress up anything simply by what footwear you rock.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

In 'Billy Elliot,' there were, like, 24 kids, so that was crazy. In 'Annie,' there's nine of us; we're all great friends, and we hang out all the time. We really are just sisters.

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.

I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?'

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

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You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.

Yes, I did have a band for two or three years. They were called Adie and the Jonahs.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.

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 follow fashion trends.

You may only be a small musical note in the realms of life, but together with others you make a symphony.