Top 303 Ensemble Quotes & Sayings

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

I've done a lot of ensemble work, and I like that.

We both [me and Eugene Levy] come from the same place. Eugene did most of his work in SCTV and ensemble situations. I'd done all this theater work before I got into movies and ensemble situations. We both learned how to develop characters and interact with other people in a unique and economic sort of way.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

You are not alone in the world. You are part of an ensemble.

When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.

'Friends' was a true ensemble. There really was no star of the show.

The pieces of "Please Give" just did fit together. I'm very comfortable with the ensemble. I thought this was just going to be a movie about this girl who gives mammograms. She's the lead. And then before I know it, she's got a sister, neighbors, and sometimes parents and friends and then it's an ensemble. And that's what I'm comfortable with, I guess.

In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

The Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances.

My comfort zone has always been in an ensemble-type atmosphere.

In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

I actually kind of prefer working with an ensemble. It's just cool to be surrounded by such great people.

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

I love being part of an ensemble.

I've said that "2012" was my favorite ensemble cast, because it was so evenly good.

I love the camaraderie that develops on film sets and ensemble casts. It's really special.

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

I like ensemble shows.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

I had a professor in graduate school who told us, 'Know what you're good at, and do that thing.' And I thought, 'Hands down, I'm an ensemble girl. I'm a fierce ensemble girl. I am dependable.' I was never seen for the ingenue or the leading lady.

I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.

I love television, and I get so spoiled because I'm coming from such an amazing ensemble in 'Hamilton' to such an amazing ensemble on 'Bull.'

All my voice training comes from choir and small ensemble singing.

It's so rare to have an ensemble cast of women.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

It is not easy to make an ensemble film - if there is one person with the wrong attitude, you are jacked.

I love working with ensemble groups of actors.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.

At its core, 'Heroes' is an ensemble character drama with genre elements.

'Bhuj' has a strong ensemble and I play a Sikh fighter pilot in it.

'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.

'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

Any show that has a completely gay ensemble has the very difficult task of trying to represent the community.

I've done a lot of pictures that are ensemble, and I've not always liked the people I was working with, but that doesn't make any difference because you do the job, and often it turns out to be a great ensemble even if you didn't particularly really like anybody.

I've always considered myself an ensemble girl, meaning I was always cast in the ensemble.

I love 'Shameless' as a fan. But I love lots of television. And as an ensemble, I have never seen a group of people put on screen what 'Shameless' - the 'Shameless' cast as an ensemble and as individuals - in decades.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

I gravitate to ensemble comedy.

In New York theater, you always talk about wanting a great ensemble of actors.

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

I think for me, I just love that trust you have with theater and your ensemble and people you are working with.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

I always dreamed about getting on TV and being part of a team - a funny ensemble.

We want an ensemble of stars, not comets.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.