Brendan Fehr Quotes

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

I think better of our behaviour as individuals than I do when we see ourselves as members of a group. It's when people start forming groups that we have to watch our backs.

And touring is difficult when everybody's heads aren't in the same place.

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

Anytime you get nine people together, whether it's at a party or it's in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.

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

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

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.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to playing with each other because they don't have to.

I just like to work with other people, and I like things that are kind of a little bit bigger than that. I don't know. I just feel like a solo record just kind of gives me the willies a little bit.

Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

If you're starting a group, don't think about being a star or you're in for heartbreak. It you enjoy singing, that's enough.

I always work with 18 friends.

My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment.

I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that.

The problem with a group is, the more people you add, the lower the average IQ.

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

I've not been able to finish any project where I haven't had other people involved making me do it really.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

I hate teaming up with people. Absolutely hate it.