Breakfast Quote by Joe Swanberg

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 is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

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

Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which…

— Steve Zissis

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing…

— Jimmy Knepper

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

When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.

— Kurt Elling

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

Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When…

— Stephane Grappelli

I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

— Naomi Grossman

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

— Kurt Elling

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on…

— Sonny Rollins