Garry Marshall Quotes

I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

I'm usually always a big fan of the people that I'm working with, because I get to work with big people.

Some of my colleagues I have the most differences with in decisions are ones with whom I have a very friendly relationship. You have to be able to step back and look at the issues and your colleagues.

It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

Persuasiveness is really just about getting your ideas across without being forceful. It's a skill that can be learned and is useful for anyone who works in a team environment.

I am very professional; I can work with my enemies, too.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

I make my relationships at work.

Luckily, I've had a very good working rapport will all my co-stars. Nobody has complained about me. No one's ever said they don't want to work with me.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.