Improvisation Quotes · Page 10

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

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

— Sonny Rollins

Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break…

— Divyanka Tripathi

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

“Can't you improvise? You know, make some loud pounding noises or cause the outer walls to bleed?”

— Jeaniene Frost

It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending…

— Katy Mixon

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

— Patrice Leconte

“Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did ‘improvisation in times of desperation.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the…

— Alan Thicke

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's…

— Alice Lowe

“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

I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound…

— Steve Coogan

Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening.…

— Jimmy Herring

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other…

— Mo Collins

The 'Natmeg' from England's Natalie Sciver attracted a lot of attention as a brilliant piece of improvisation, which requires every bit as…

— Isa Guha

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of…

— Pete Carroll

It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work…

— Seth Rogen

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school.…

— Imogen Poots

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

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

You have to study composition to understand that things can be done backwards and forwards and upside down, inverted, but it's mainly…

— Terry Bozzio

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like…

— Eric Balfour

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

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

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill.…

— Keith Johnstone

Improv is really fun but it's a lot harder to show people your work if they don't come to your show. Something…

— Patti Harrison

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

Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.

— Yoshi Wada

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

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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

— Ali Farahnakian

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

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

— Ahmad Jamal

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

— Anonymous

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

— Lily Collins

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

— Henri Matisse

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musicians…

— Derek Bailey