Quotes About Improv

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

There was an improv class in our high school, and we all ended up taking it and loving it. Then we just started our own thing.

You can't be controlling in improv.

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

I'm not an improv guy.

There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

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

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

My background is in improv and writing.

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone.

When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm.

Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.