The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen. — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
“Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's… — Chris Kattan Copy Share Image
It's so much harder to make a living off improv. Improv is so rarified and for such a specific audience. — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
I look for something universal in songs rather than something personal. I look for something that will give us a platform for… — Will Kimbrough Copy Share Image
People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. — Joy Bryant Copy Share Image
As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
My advice to you: live in the moment. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They… — Henry Threadgill Copy Share Image
I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“In so far as I listen with interest to a record, it’s usually to figure out how it was arrived at. The… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
“No battle plan can anticipate all contingencies. There are always unexpected factors including those stemming from the opponent's initiative. A battle must… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image