With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting. — Tcheky Karyo Copy Share Image
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise. — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation. — Don King Copy Share Image
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Working with animals forces an actor to work harder because you have to be quick when it comes to improvisation, and you… — Kyle Massey Copy Share Image
“Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things… — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be… — Chuck Cannon Copy Share Image
In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for… — R. Keith Sawyer Copy Share Image
When you improvise alone, you don't risk a lot, but doing an improvisation when you are two is even more difficult because… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
“A good improviser is someone who is awake, not entirely self-focused, and moved by a desire to do something useful and give… — Patricia Ryan Madson Copy Share Image
I hope it might help players have confidence in our own ways, and not to be afraid of them, as Bernstein showed… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it;… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him… — Frederic Rzewski Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The problem with improv is that you're letting an idiot tell you what to do. — Dino Stamatopoulos Copy Share Image
A strict form such as mine cannot be achieved through improvisation. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life. — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living. — Colin Mochrie 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
