Actors Quote by Bruce Willis

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Improvisation is a weird word because we often think it means that you make things up out of whole cloth right there on the…

— Roger Ebert

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool. It's not so much that the actors get to say…

— Ivan Reitman

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

— Viola Spolin

A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it…

— Jason Sudeikis

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another…

— Alan Arkin

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my…

— Rachael Harris

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their…

— Mike Figgis

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.

— Paul Merton

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

— Adam McKay

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they…

— Woody Allen

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good…

— Kenya Barris