Ensemble Quotes - Page 2

• From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

  Bill Condon

  Epic, Groups, Stories

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• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Awards, Guy, Mind

  "The Contender Q&A: Garret Dillahunt". Interview with Paul Gaita, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 17, 2009.

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• I love being part of an ensemble.

  Rashida Jones

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• When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

  Paul Weller

  Voice, Pieces, Records

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Densmore

  Spiritual, Rays, Transcendental

  FaceBook post by John Densmore from Mar 26, 2016

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• I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

  Andy Samberg

  College, Lucky, Enough

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

  Jodie Foster

  Character, People, Focus

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• I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Support, I've Learned, Casts

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

  Gerry Mulligan

  Horny, Want, Mulligans

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• Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

  Paul Bley

  Writing, Play, Piano

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• I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.

  Mark Hamill

  Fun, Character, Love Is

  "Mark Hamill revisits Sushi Girl, Batman, and The Simpsons". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2012.

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• I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

  Ryan Phillippe

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

  Adam Arkin

  Team, Player, Firefighter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.

  Steven Bochco

  Opportunity, People, Hills

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• Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.

  Chuck Mangione

  School, Class, Musician

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• I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

  Brian De Palma

  Character, Long, Acting

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off

  Fred Willard

  Fun, Way, Scene

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• One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

  Ted Danson

  Cheer, Actors, Ingredients

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• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  Gavin Bryars

  Hard Times, Knows, Hard

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.

  Damon Albarn

  Men, Listening, Taught

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• It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Attention, Splits, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.

  Elvin Jones

  Musical, Arms, Roles

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• The cast of 'Vikings' is a real team, a true ensemble. It's a mad, eclectic, great bunch! But we support each other and trust each other completely. There are no egos.

  Clive Standen

  Real, Team, Mad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, Color, Sky

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• I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.

  Frank Stella

  Artist, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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