Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The emphasis in each piece is on building a whole, totally integrated structure. In doing this, we try to carry on -… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea,… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when… — Tim Meadows Copy Share Image
My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second,… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
When you're at a concert and you hear someone improvise well, that's special; it puts you in the moment and takes you… — John Popper Copy Share Image
Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Sometimes improv doesn't work on TV because the audience had heard the thing that was shouted and they're very much alive, the… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
“improv and child rearing are not so different. Both are jobs that people volunteer for and complain about endlessly, and they bore… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely,… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
“visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation… — Jimmy Heath Copy Share Image
That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just… — Ryan Stiles Copy Share Image
Writing for chamber ensemble is the thing that excites me the most. So when I went down into the cistern, I didn't… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
I put so much energy into with improv. You can only perform it at a place where people are, essentially, taking improv… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every… — Lizz Wright Copy Share Image
