Quotes About Improv

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.

It's great when improv is encouraged. It's a really fun thing. It depends on who's in the movie and how their process works as well. It takes a director who is open to that because you have a script, but then something funny could happen on set.

So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.

I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.

I took an improv class, and after my first class, I was like, 'Oh, I just want to do something like this. This is super fun.'

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.

As a writer, I use improv to write. Exploring characters and stories through improv and sitting at the computer and thinking about what this character would say or do helps me creatively.

I will say I miss teaching improv way more than I miss performing improv.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

Looking back, when my cousins and I were kids, we'd put together these little skits - these 10-minute improv scenes. I didn't really understand what I was doing - that I was writing these mini-sketches and acting - but we were all totally into it.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style.

I don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.

With 'The Crazy Ones,' we were really encouraged to improv and go off script.

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

In wrestling, I don't consider it acting because it's improv.

I think with a lot of comics, their gift is improv. They don't have a script. They'll have a couple of good ideas they start with, and go from there. And it's the same in wrestling.

Some of the people I've met in those first few weeks of even trying improv classes are still my friends now - 15, 17 years later.

If there are kids in the crowd, I try to be more animated for them. It does change a little bit each show. There's a lot of improv.