Peter Farrelly Quotes

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

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.

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.

Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

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.

You can't make a manager have a coach he doesn't want. I can't make the head of the accounting department work with someone he doesn't want.

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.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

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

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

Not everybody's going to have a perfect relationship with every great player on their team. But when I step between those lines and I'm with my team, we're a brotherhood.

As it happens in relationships that are open and frank and based on mutual respect, you say things as you think them, and this doesn't mean that you don't work together in a constructive way.

It's great to work with friends. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but everybody goes into it knowing that. Like, 'We might be really good friends, but we might be terrible collaborators.'

We know - relationships in this sport, it's very hard to have a really great relationship.

Tom Hanks is one of my favourite actors... I definitely want to work with him.

At the end of the day, the players and the coach have to talk - that's what consolidates the relationship.

We need to find ways to grow as a team and get better to be the best team possible.

People don't realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.