That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go." — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little. — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well. — Dacre Montgomery Copy Share Image
Actors improvise on the stage and enjoy interacting with audiences. — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
If a singer wants to improvise while recording a song, he has to get the permission of the composer. — M. Jayachandran Copy Share Image
I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's… — Chris Kattan Copy Share Image
If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here. — Miranda Richardson Copy Share Image
But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process,… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise. — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I… — Shook Copy Share Image
I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
It may seem like improv because it flows quite naturally, and a little bit of leeway for improvisation is good, but you… — Steve Coogan 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
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do stand up, it's… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to… — James McBride Copy Share Image
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind… — Ritchie Blackmore Copy Share Image
In theatre you can't ad lib, so you want to pick really good material, like David Mamet or Shakespeare or whatever. You… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if… — James Franco Copy Share Image
