Quotes About Performance

My background is in improv and writing.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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