Elmer Bernstein Quotes

We're a weird bunch at 'Mike & Molly.' We go to work, and we're crazy about each other, and we love where we go to work.

When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my longing to go back to work was wanting to be surrounded by these people who were teaching me things and drinking bad coffee at three in the morning while we were lying around in a bikini in the winter. Somehow it just felt like real life. It felt more like real life than my life.

We humans are not born alone; joining and being active in a club whose members share your passion for ideas and get your jokes is one of the great joys of life.

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.

Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.

I think the best thing that Jonathan and I have done is… having really strong people working with us - our work environment and all of our employees and everybody, we're like one big family.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

'White Collar' is really a unique family where people kind of all get each other, and they're all on the same page. I was really fortunate because when I got there, I kind of just immediately fit right in with everybody.

The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

Los Angeles is such a widespread city, sometimes it's hard to see your friends, and food is a great way to get together - it's a great way of giving love.

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

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

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

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.