Edward Albee Quotes

I've worked on shows where the actors don't talk to each other, and if they want to talk to each other, they talk through the director. What kind of existence is this? If I have to spend 14 hours a day with somebody, we're in a relationship. We'd better talk it out.

There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.

Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it's amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

The Bullet Club is fine, man. We've got a lot more to focus on than the problems that we may or may not have with each other. When you have so many guys together that are so talented, you're going to butt heads.

It is important to challenge your major players. You need to keep them on their toes but there are ways of doing that. Sometimes you have to be a shoulder to cry on. You can't be constantly at them.

We've stayed with the business and even though we have the arguments and disagreements that eight guys in a building trying to do a job would have, we try to keep that off the cameras because it's too much drama. Really what it is is we have eight guys who are having fun doing what they do.

As a manager, you worry about any different issue you have in your squad.

Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?

Our relationship is very good. When Ibra gets annoyed, I prefer not to reply because I know how he can react. I prefer to calmly count to ten.

Filmmaking is all about people management.

I've been around clubhouses a long time, I know how to maneuver around the clubhouse.

Producing is always really hard, and you can never tell who's going to be easy to get along with and who's going to be difficult.

When I have one-on-ones, I usually win those.

When you are a footballer, you will not always play 90 minutes. Sometimes you are not happy, but this is not important for me.

I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.

Obviously, people in the media speak a lot when things aren't going right, but we as players do communicate with each other. Maybe it doesn't come across as being loud on the pitch - and you don't see it as much - but we do speak when things aren't going as well as planned.

We all have the same problems with family or friends, boyfriends, all that stuff.

Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different ways.

I'm with WWE Superstars so much... more than my own family and we get on each other's nerves.

Film school didn't prepare me for the fact that you have to manage so many different personalities at every stage, and I learned nothing about what to do when a movie was finished.

I think it's a requirement that the general manager and the coach are communicating with each other on a regular basis, and it's unacceptable if they're not.

The magic of the group has everything to do with the chemistry between myself, Tionne and Chilli. With TLC, it's like, if there wasn't something going wrong, it just wouldn't be right.

I find it very difficult to work with people I don't like; I can't do that.

Jose Mourinho was a difficult coach for me, and we had a respectful but complicated relationship. When I thought he would give me a chance, I couldn't prove to him that I was in good shape.

Every team I've played on has players-only meetings, players staff meetings, so this is part of the process.