Sam Neill Quotes

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

What could be better than working with people you love?

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

When I'm in New York, I have a wonderful hair and makeup team. We've just been laughing all day today. In work, I believe that you really need to choose people that you get along with because work is life, so you may as well enjoy your time. I'm lucky. I have great people around me, and we laugh all day.

I hear some horror stories from other channels, and I think what a blessing to work with a team of people that you're genuinely happy to hang with. I don't feel I need to dominate 'Newsnight.'

For me, it's very important that the people I'm working with are feeling happy.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

We really have a lot of fun at these sessions, we all get along and kid around with each other throughout the job.

If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.

Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

At the end of the day, you want to work with people you want to work with - regardless of what they've done. Being able to spend 15 hours on a set with somebody and enjoy every minute of it - that's what it's really about.

It's an amazing blessing to go to work every day with people I genuinely love.

I think, for me, it's very important to have a good team and to feel comfortable in the environment.

When you're having a good time working on something, and you all like each other, it shows in ways that you don't even realize.

I feel genuinely fortunate to work with so many friends and talented people at ESPN, who make every day such fun.

It makes things very easy when the people you are working for have trust and believe in you and actually really like and respect your work.

Employees can make happiness when they maximize their brainwork voluntarily and enthusiastically. Management should focus on setting up an atmosphere.

In leading-edge companies like Google and Apple, workers are given much freedom and opportunity to play. They know that's an important component of creating new and better products. I believe that at whatever level of work, cashier at a supermarket, janitor at an airport, aide in a cubicle, the addition of a playful attitude makes the job better and the work more enjoyable. A cashier or janitor who smiles and is friendly gets a better response than a surly one.

For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into.

I've been so blessed to work with the people I have.

If I'm going to be away from my family, I'd rather it be working with my friends.