If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight! — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen. — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
“Herzen declared that there were “no solutions”: history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide. — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv. — CM Punk 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 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 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
When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
In improvising, you've got your scale; you've got the notes that are going to sound good with other notes, the intervals that… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants,… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
This is a very different show than any I've worked on before. We work sixty-hour weeks. I work 6AM to 6PM because… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think in theater it demands that you say the same words every night and make it feel fresh and new. Improv… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him… — Frederic Rzewski Copy Share Image
I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing,… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
![“Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that's not freedom! That's control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the…” quote by Sheila Heti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/sheila-heti-2776_art_sholem-a-painter-was-saying-that-freedom_1434124.jpg)
