Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
I've done a few roles in the past where people got quite worried when I started drifting away from what was written… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It's a very composed situation. We spend… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The best thing about improv is that no matter how bad your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again.… — Mick Napier Copy Share Image
In improvisation, there is only one time. This is what computer people call real time. The time of inspiration, the time of… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did work with coach. I went to this place called Actors Space in the Valley. I was… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience.… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
We started off in improv and sketch comedy, and with improv the most important thing is to listen and make sure you're… — Sal Vulcano Copy Share Image
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
I tell absolutely everybody: you must take an improv class. You have to be able to think on your feet. You have… — Ryan Serhant Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
A lot of people inspire me. I'm a huge movie buff. From studying and watching movies, over and over again, directly influential… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation… — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward,… — Bobby McFerrin 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
[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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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