Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break… — Divyanka Tripathi Copy Share Image
Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response. — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
I started improvisation at age nine, and I loved it so much I stuck with it. As a by-product, acting was just… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny. — Meat Loaf Copy Share Image
“Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing… — Fiona Dourif Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to… — Eugene Levy 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
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
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
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
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
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 love performing. I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in… — Victor Garber 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
It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
It's the most terrifying thing for me, improv. It's a complete lack of control of both narrative and performance. Once you let… — Cory Michael Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing — Mick Napier Copy Share Image
“Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough. — Flea Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and… — Jason Mantzoukas Copy Share Image
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do. — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style. — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would… — Allison Tolman Copy Share Image
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it. I suppose a lot of it is… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
