Gavin MacLeod Quotes

The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.

I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts.

I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.

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.

Theater, especially musical theater, is a collaborative endeavor. The success of the venture is about the team.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

I've been on some really good teams.

I love working with ensemble groups of actors.

Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

Entrepreneurs have a natural inclination to go it alone. While this do-it-yourself spirit can help you move forward, adding an element of collaboration into the mix can make you unstoppable.

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

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.

Repertory theater is all about being part of the whole, one of the many colors in this vast palette.