Achieve Quote by Viola Spolin

All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and…

— 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

Sometimes some of the best moments are contributed by the actors being creative, with their own improvisations.

— Woody Allen

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

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

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

— Carl Reiner

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

Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and proactive for…

— John C. Reilly

In acting, one should look at the film in totality. Improvisations should only be made keeping in mind the limits of a character. Always…

— Aparshakti Khurana

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

During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were…

— Joe Swanberg

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