Neal Brennan Quotes

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

I am very fussy; I am very detailed; I nag a lot. So in a sense, I am like Mr. Ping. I am temperamental, I am emotional, I'm fussy, and I'm very exact. And I want people to not fail; I want them to execute - all those things Mr. Ping wants in other people. Or animals.

I'm extremely hard to work with.

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I do have impossibly high standards.

The superior man is easy to serve and difficult to please.

You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.

If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.

Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way.

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

If I drop a ball, I'm going to beat myself up, or if I go out and a rep isn't perfect, I feel like I've got to do it again.

It can be a bit sententious in the Nigerian household, to the point where you feel like with any wrong step you've set yourself back so far. It's like everything has to be done right.

I prefer to have the music as pure as possible. I don't want to say, 'Oh yes, this is good. This is not good; I have to do it again.' I don't want to do it again. I want to do it once. It's no good, I do another one.

If I'm demanding and have high standards, I'm happy about that.

I have extremely high standards.