Bill Hader Quotes

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

I love being able to work with other artists I admire, but I have a lot to do on my own before I am willing to make it all about embracing other people.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

For sure, I need a coach, because at this level, you cannot do it alone.

Business is just like sports: if you're the best in the group that you run in, you're never going to get any better. It's the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.

Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.