Quotes About Improv

I think Chicago's kind of a comedy hub, and I think it always has been.

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

When I'm watching Tom Servo, I don't feel like I'm in my own body; I'm just reacting and saying what the character in front of me would say.

Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a ton of heroes that you can look to.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.

'The State' had never done improv. We used to go over scripts for weeks and argue about every joke. But I don't know how we would have scripted 'Reno.'

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.'

Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

I saturated myself with the improv community.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.