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Time & Perspective Quote by Emmy Rossum

"Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other"

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Eight months is long enough to stop performing “chemistry” and start building it. Emmy Rossum’s line reads like a behind-the-scenes diary entry, but the subtext is about craft: the unglamorous, daily repetition that turns a cast from coworkers into a feedback ecosystem. When she says “we got so close,” she isn’t selling friendship as a perk; she’s naming the condition that makes creative risk possible. Closeness becomes a safety net, and safety is what lets actors (or any collaborators) try something messier, stranger, less polished - the stuff that actually advances a scene.

The phrase “not afraid to improve with each other” is the tell. Improvement is usually framed as individual grind: your acting coach, your prep, your brand. Rossum shifts it to a collective verb, implying a set where notes aren’t landmines and ego isn’t the loudest person in the room. The “not afraid” suggests the default on many productions is the opposite: guardedness, competition, the quiet terror of looking unprepared in front of peers. Her emphasis on time also hints at the privilege of schedule - the rare luxury of a production long enough for trust to compound.

Culturally, it’s a small rebuke to the myth of solitary talent. Rossum points to the less marketable truth: growth is often interpersonal, and the best work comes from groups that can fail in front of each other without punishment.

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Rossum, Emmy. (2026, January 17). Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/here-we-spent-so-much-time-together-eight-45776/

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Rossum, Emmy. "Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/here-we-spent-so-much-time-together-eight-45776/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/here-we-spent-so-much-time-together-eight-45776/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Emmy Rossum (born September 12, 1986) is a Actress from USA.

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