Bits Quote by Steve Coogan

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can…

— Derek Bailey

Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get…

— Amy Poehler

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

— Paul Simon

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

— Flea

Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous…

— Jimmy Heath

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

So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

— Brian Henson

Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in character, you…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

To work from nature is to improvise.

— Georges Braque

I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something…

— John C. Reilly

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create,…

— Rob Riggle

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain…

— Robert Redford