I always hankered to be a composer - I was mad about music, though I never studied seriously, and can't read a… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time,… — Bernard Sahlins Copy Share Image
I can't speak American dog very well. There was a lot of improvisation with Uggie - like when I put the dog… — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I think the improv also helps with the imagination of dealing this person across from me who's not physically there. When you… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
And in Improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as "Yes And." The term YES AND:… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
For me anyway, until I was exposed to doing improvisation and walking onto a stage without any script, I would have never… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
[Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and… — J. Richard Hackman Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes… — Catherine O'Hara Copy Share Image
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music,… — Jan Hammer Copy Share Image
There was a lot of improvisation on 'Step Brothers.' I remember it being really frightening, and it took me a long time… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
Well David "Fathead" Newman was my first experience with improvisation. When I saw him play for the first time I realized that… — Roy Hargrove Copy Share Image
Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it… — Stephane Grappelli Copy Share Image
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can… — DJ Jazzy Jeff Copy Share Image
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was… — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
I started in documentaries, and that was a great help to me with improvisation, because with documentaries, you're handed a big lump… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
Now jamming - which is about collaborative improvisation - has to do with getting people together to be creative musically. But it… — John Kao Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
The real art of what we do, at least back in the old-school days, was improv. If you were a great worker,… — Ted DiBiase Sr Copy Share Image
I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of… — James Beard Copy Share Image
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