Improvising Quotes

59 quotes by 57 authors

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the… — Mary Catherine Bateson
If you're too hung up on improvising 'correctly', you will almost always fail. — Craig Cackowski
There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and… — Roger Deakin
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very… — Mark Duplass
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. — Julian Casablancas
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music… — David Sanborn
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. — John Schlesinger
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always… — David Walliams
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a… — Mike Leigh
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally. — Ty Burrell
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have… — John Cale
I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and… — Ioan Gruffudd
Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody. — Bill Hader
When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never… — Stan Getz
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't… — James Franco
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising. — Billy Crystal
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the… — Barbara Januszkiewicz
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. — Wynton Marsalis
When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens.… — Colin Mochrie
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet. — John C. Reilly

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