Josh Lawson Quotes

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

We had a good cast and we loved each other.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

I have great teammates around me who make plays.

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.