Improvisation Quotes · Page 3

If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!

— Daniel Stern

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

— Chris O'Dowd

I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.

— Sam Palladio

We actually use a lot of improvisation on 'Transparent.'

— Amy Landecker

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

— Ikue Mori

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

— Ed Helms

Theatre sports is the best improv training period

— Wayne Brady

If you go back to the roots of jazz, it was all about COLLECTIVE improvisation.

— Henry Threadgill

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

— Andrea Bocelli

Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together.

— Stewart D. Friedman

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

— Lee Konitz

“Life was about improvisation. The scripted operations were the ones that usually went wrong.”

— David Ignatius

I like messing up the song, doing some improvisation. And I like running around the room with the mic.

— Erika M. Anderson

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

— Yehudi Menuhin

You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got…

— Albert Brooks

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

— Cornelius Cardew

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

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

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or…

— Alan Arkin

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

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

If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses…

— Annaleigh Ashford

The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can…

— Dave Brubeck

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City…

— Mike Birbiglia

Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and…

— Elliott Sharp

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

I've been fortunate to work with good directors who understand improvisation and understand the way comedians work. Luke Basan let me do…

— Chris Tucker

With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system…

— Steve Paxton

I think the films and the paintings erase each other. The paintings are extremely slow and constantly going on in the studio…

— Sarah Morris

Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the…

— David Graeber

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

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

— Paul Simon

Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.

— Jane Lynch

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

— Pauline Oliveros

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

— Michael Bay

The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

— Jim Rash

Improvisation has never been my strong point.

— Scarlett Johansson

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

— Cecil Taylor

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

— J. B. Smoove