Improvisation Quotes · Page 9

if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while…

— Joan Rivers

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what…

— Stanley Crouch

The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible…

— Carlos Gavito

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It…

— John Michael Higgins

I loved the idea [of improvisation], but I'd never taken any classes or practiced it.

— Lily Collins

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

— John Travolta

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

— Ali Farahnakian

I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a…

— Alan Alda

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is…

— Josh Blue

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did…

— Steve Buscemi

I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is…

— Michael Shannon

With Sleater-Kinney, we did a lot of improvisation in our live shows, and even our process of songwriting involved bringing in disparate…

— Carrie Brownstein

Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the…

— Jamie Lidell

We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on…

— Anna Boden

When you’re good at improv, even when you’re going to deliver somebody else’s line that they’ve written, you’ve got to nail it.…

— Chris Jericho

“The second rule of improvisation is not only to say yes, but YES, AND. You are supposed to agree and then _add…

— Tina Fey

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

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

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

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each…

— Russell Lynes

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation. There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none.…

— Christopher Guest

Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating…

— Josh Linkner

It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire…

— Greg Egan

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think…

— Anonymous

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

— Ahmad Jamal

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

— Michael Snow

Salman has a great sense of humour. His improvisation is very good. His show '10 Ka Dum' on Sony TV is hilarious.…

— Arshad Warsi

Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you…

— Ed Helms

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

— Paul Theroux

I think I'm going to venture into the futuristic, semi sci-fi love story land, but still in my style of improvisation.

— Drake Doremus

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely…

— Lucien Bourjeily

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger…

— Simon Pegg

With 'Slave Ambient', I was writing things on top of loops. Now I really get the structure of the song down, but…

— Adam Granduciel

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

— Matt Besser

As any jazz musician knows, it takes flexibility and adaptability for improvisation to create beauty.

— Doc Childre

People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

— Jon Brion

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

— Ken Burns

Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning

— Ferreira Gullar

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck…

— Walter Benjamin