City Quote by Ian Gomez

I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago - I'm from Evanston, Illinois - so I did improv classes at…

— Lauren Lapkus

I've taught people in improv classes, then watched them move to Los Angeles to become Emmy winners and movie stars. That experience, for anyone…

— Chris Gethard

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I…

— Simon Helberg

Becoming a performer, comedian - anything other than a teacher, really - seemed very far-fetched. So I kind of split off into this separate…

— Quinta Brunson

When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live'…

— Andy Daly

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

— Rachel Dratch

My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at…

— Alexandra Petri

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

— Rachel Dratch

I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and…

— Lainie Kazan

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me…

— Timothy Simons

I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for…

— Frank McCourt

I was a funny kid growing up, and I did improv in college and went to Pratt Institute, but I did it very informally.…

— Phoebe Robinson