Juliette Lewis Quotes

Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

Personality-wise, I'm much more suited to be in a band and part of an ensemble than I am to lead. I never have been comfortable with the leading thing.

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

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

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

Collaboration is really important.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

I am too much of a team member to be separated from my team.

Companies are communities. There's a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for success.

People must work in unison.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.