Relaxed Setting Quotes

I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

The wine I produce is not for keeping. It's the wine you want when meeting friends for a game of cards.

I have a lot of brothers and male cousins. I grew up in an informal, jokey environment.

In rehearsals, I like to create an honest environment that is kinda free and fun.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.

More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

It really was an amazing thing when Midlake brought me down to Texas and created an atmosphere in which I felt really safe and was able to do whatever I wanted artistically.

I prefer a scruffy atmosphere.

I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.

Definitely, people laugh a lot on the set. The actor always feels bad about laughing during a take. But I love it. It means you are having a good time and you are enjoying yourself. There is nothing wrong with laughter.

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.

Communication is different in the clubhouse than it is in a boardroom. The heartbeat that exists in the clubhouse, you don't find that same type of heartbeat in the front office.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

A hundred years ago, concerts were far more come-what-may - people played cards, drank beer and appreciated the music. If we go some way towards restoring that spirit, I'll be happy.

I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.