Laura Carmichael Quotes

I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh...they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out.

Working with Christopher McQuarrie and working with Tom Cruise; two people who are just so good at what they do, it just makes you better.

I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

I've always surrounded myself with talented people, both in film and in business.

Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with the Wayanses and Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, and it makes you better.

I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.