Improvisation Quotes · Page 6

I think improvisation is a skill, that if you learn it at a really young age then you can use it for…

— Martin Kemp

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

— Carson McCullers

Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who…

— Tina Fey

“I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of…

— Danielle Ellison

If you know your character inside out then that's when improv starts to sound good. But improv to me can be as…

— Jamie Demetriou

The rules of improvisation apply beautifully to life. Never say no - you have to be interested to be interesting, and your…

— Scott Adsit

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz,…

— John Kao

You've got to have fun playing. It bothers me when players don't seem to be enjoying themselves, even when they play an…

— Rufus Reid

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith…

— John Zorn

It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it…

— Ed Helms

The interesting thing about improvisation is you're making something up in front of the audience. Now music helps you out a little…

— David Steinberg

I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass…

— Signe Baumane

Im going to break one of the rules of the trade here. Im going to tell you some of the secrets of…

— James Beard

In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and…

— Valerie Harper

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total…

— Mike Figgis

There are definitely some set topics I go onstage with and want to talk about, but there's also an element of improvisation…

— Hasan Minhaj

I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is…

— Charlie Haden

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase…

— Thomas Bangalter

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm…

— Vijay Iyer

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation.…

— Aaron Zigman

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert…

— Jeff Bridges

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want…

— Rob Reiner

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly…

— Terry Bozzio

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like…

— Eric Balfour

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

— John Dewey

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what…

— Paul Merton

Cutting improvisation is really hard, because things don't match, and you end up with some bad cuts sometimes. But we'd rather have…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a…

— Chris Gethard

Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.

— David Pye

[on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

— Allan Dwan

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

— Darren Boyd

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you…

— Shelley Berman

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.

— Edward Abbey

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to…

— Diedrich Bader

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

— Allan Holdsworth

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I've never been a big fan of improvisation, because I think you appreciate the process and the cleverness of it more than…

— Alan Thicke

Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

— Martin Short

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's…

— Richard Holbrooke