Quotes About Improv

That's really what 'Jokers' is - an improv show.

Jokers' is an improv show in disguise.

We're improv comedians, we're not necessarily actors, we don't come across that way.

When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that.

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

It's always fun to improvise.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!

Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994, it's legally required that I take at least one improv class in my life.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

I think the key to improv is always listening. It's embracing. It's positivity. It's hearing things and not shutting them down.

I was a very shy kid. In 8th grade, I had a teacher who got me into improv.

Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.

I was a funny kid growing up, and I did improv in college and went to Pratt Institute, but I did it very informally. It was just me and some of my friends goofing around on campus.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.