Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised. — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that. — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies. — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy. — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going… — Paul F. Tompkins 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
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised… — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the… — Derek Bailey Copy Share Image
I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in schools. I had… — Steven Blum Copy Share Image
“Who knows when some version of our ancestors first crawled out of the ash and started jabbering at each other? Thirty thousand… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
People think "The Office" was improvised, but it's all on the page. We do that because what we found is that in… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should… — Trevor St. John Copy Share Image
There's something bigger than improvised music versus pop music versus something else. What actually succeeds in being communicated are human feelings, things… — John Dieterich Copy Share Image
I have been training under Melvin Louis and Dimple Kotecha. They're very different people and their styles and training procedures are also… — Pulkit Samrat Copy Share Image
I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It… — Cathy Moriarty Copy Share Image
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of… — Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised,… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in… — Jamie Muir Copy Share Image
When I was coming up, a freestyle wasn't a freestyle unless everything was completely improvised, in-the-moment and right there, and you had… — Black Thought 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
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
You've got to find a way to relate to people. I just did an improvised episode for Joe Swanberg's new Netflix show,… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The scene with Danny [McBride] and the cake and all of that [in the Pineapple Express], most of that is improvised, I… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we've always been a band that improvised our sets. That's… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
![“There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.” quote by Amy Poehler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09a/amy-poehler-1084_actors_there-s-nothing-like-watching-a-live-per_2158771.jpg)
![“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 necessarily mean it's improvised.” quote by Christoph Waltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8dd/christoph-waltz-8110_different_effortless-performance-and-improvisation_2216751.jpg)
![“The scene with Danny [McBride] and the cake and all of that [in the Pineapple Express], most of that is improvised, I would say. But you would never know, to me anyway, and that's what is always amazing.” quote by Seth Rogen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aab/seth-rogen-1831_cake_the-scene-with-danny-mcbride-and-the-cak_1536555.jpg)
