Quotes About Improv

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

River City Improv set the stage for my career.

We have a full writers' room, and with something like 'MyMusic,' we've scripted it out with professional writers. There is some very basic improv from the actors, but everything is very to the letter, so it's easy to edit down to an episode. There are fun little things an actor might throw in there.

I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.

I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20.

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

I like to do as much improv as I can do.

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I was going to do theater and Broadway and stuff.

I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,' and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of 'yes and-ing' applies to everything.

I've always said my whole career that I wanted to write by the improv credo, 'don't negate,' which means, even if you didn't care for something, you try to make it work. You don't say, 'Oh, that particular story didn't happen.'

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'

If you're at the Comedy Store or the Laugh Factory or the Improv, even two minutes helps. You never know who might be in the audience.

I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.

If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.

Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.