Improvised Quotes

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

— Larry David

I loved the freedom of improvised music.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Role-playing games are just an organic improvised space for storytelling.

— Matthew Mercer

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The world looks at you through the window you improvised.

— Dr Jankada

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

— John Lothrop Motley

My first movie was totally improvised.

— Damien Chazelle

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

— Jamie Lidell

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was…

— Nick Swardson

Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.

— Hiromi

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised…

— Tina Fey

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

— Martin Short

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

— Dianne Reeves

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

— Fred Frith

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling.…

— Bill Nighy

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think…

— John Lurie

As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the…

— David Grubbs

“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know…

— Don DeLillo

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may…

— Joe Zawinul

I like little collaborations where the other thing happens, where it's half-baked or it's improvised, and let's develop it together. "What do…

— Jeff Goldblum

I think I wanted to do something that retained the improvised chaos of 'Mamma Mia' the theatre show which set it apart…

— Phyllida Lloyd

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm…

— Paul Reubens

People call what we do "stretch music." This is our style, and one of the newer, in vogue ways of playing creative,…

— Christian Scott

At a certain point, I started playing improvised music. After a couple of years of this, I did a little bit of…

— Kevin Drumm

To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs,…

— Christoph Waltz

I think the beauty of documentary work is that it's a mystery - you never know where it's going to lead you.…

— Gail Levin

We played around and improvised a ton [in The Hangover], and I think it's hard to say at this point what's what.…

— Ed Helms

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about…

— Lynn Shelton

eah, you don't get a lot of meatheads doing improvised theater to begin with, and that's always been my thing. I talk…

— Jon Gabrus

We like to create an atmosphere where people can try whatever they want and experiment. But ultimately people tend to fall on…

— Anna Boden

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

— Martin Freeman

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

— Andy Partridge

“Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.”

— Michael G. Williams

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

— Fred Frith

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up…

— Synyster Gates

'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

— Jonathan Krisel

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to…

— Abel Ferrara

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock…

— Patti Smith

Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised.

— Arthur Hiller