Acting Ensemble Quotes

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.

What attracted to me about it was the cast. Working on 'New Girl' - I like working with an ensemble.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

I learned so much on 'Sicario' and working with that group of actors, where there was the audacity, the confidence, to do nothing.

'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.

I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that.

I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.

The whole cast of Sirphire' was a great fun to shoot with; singers Preet Harpal, Roshan Prince were like brothers while shooting and we formed our own trio.

When you're doing a legitimate play, if you have a company of 12, it's considered a big cast.

The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

Being in the theatre is like being in a little family: you get really close.

With repertory, you had to play all these different characters. The range of roles is really what I fell in love with, every night getting to become somebody different. That was my idea of acting, getting to be part of the company and a family.

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

Filming 'Jamestown' in Budapest for six months felt like summer camp. There was a lovely cast of 16 actors, and we got along so well.

When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

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

I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.