By definition, acting is improvisation, even if you follow the lines. You invent what you do, when you do it. — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
“Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me if piano had helped me in football. I guess improvisation and creativity helps on the field, but that's a… — Joey Harrington Copy Share Image
Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
...this is my dilemma. I'm a guy who makes things up as I go along, so nothing is ever finished - there… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Most of the musicians that I'm playing with now have jazz backgrounds, so they're comfortable with improvisation. And they all know to… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Sometimes it depends on the actor or the actress. Sometimes they demand a lot of rehearsals. Sometimes they don't. Making movies is… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the… — Harold Land Copy Share Image
I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is:… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
With Halloween, the director was this genius wonder boy who was the writer, director, producer, along with his girlfriend. They were this… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do… — Hans Matheson Copy Share Image
I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school.… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
“Herzen declared that there were “no solutions”: history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv. — CM Punk Copy Share Image
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
“The second rule of improvisation is not only to say yes, but YES, AND. You are supposed to agree and then add… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The idea of improvisation means that we confront ourselves with our own individual creativity. — Brian Alger Copy Share Image
In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking. — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Salman has a great sense of humour. His improvisation is very good. His show '10 Ka Dum' on Sony TV is hilarious.… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance. — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation. — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
