I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation… — John Medina Copy Share Image
The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
I often tell my students that you can't worry about the end of an improv scene because the end is not up… — Mark Sutton Copy Share Image
What I love about improv so much is that we are all discovering it at roughly the same time. The performers are… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
My advice to you: live in the moment. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation.… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
“Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
I love improvisation because I like to be able to contribute creatively a little bit more than just memorizing my lines. But… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we're going to be able to teach improv… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and… — Ilana Glazer Copy Share Image
I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening.… — Jimmy Herring Copy Share Image
I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other… — Mo Collins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing… — Michaela Watkins Copy Share Image
There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I became immersed in the cult of improvisation. I was like one of those athletes trying to get into the Olympics. It… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You can do a whole scene in acting without ever checking in to what the other guy is saying - it's not… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be… — Alexis Taylor Copy Share Image
The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
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