I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
“Whether personal or organizational, building capacity to effectively deal with change creates resilience, and without exceptional resilience there is no antifragility.” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
Improvisation is an important part of bluegrass, and I would hasten to add that classical music wasn't always such an improvisational void.… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a… — Z'EV Copy Share Image
Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing… — Ali Farahnakian Copy Share Image
Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really… — John Cale Copy Share Image
Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on… — Chuck Mangione Copy Share Image
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
![“So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of catch each other at times, surprise each other. I think that really makes it a fun, sort of live, unique experience.” quote by Alex Timbers](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/64e/alex-timbers-35344_fun_so-much-of-the-show-too-much-tuna-is-imp_729345.jpg)
![“I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].” quote by Mike Birbiglia](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f23/mike-birbiglia-1343_asking_i-have-this-habit-of-asking-why-do-you-w_896488.png)
