Quotes About Adaptability

Any female who can hold her own in a male dominated environment is impressive.

Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

You can't be controlling in improv.

I think that I can improv.

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

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 added a bit more composure on the ball and defensively got a bit cuter and improved in one-on-ones.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.

I get hired because I improvise well.

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

I'm really good at improvising on stage, so if I'd forget a step, I'll just make up something. And the rest of the dancers would be like... what is she doing!? It always looked like they have forgotten the step, so I got away with it!

I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

To just be all analytically inclined or heartbeat inclined, you are going to lose; you are not going to be the best version of yourself.

It's incumbent upon a director, if you want to pull the best performance out of an actor, you have to really work to who they are and how they work and not just expect them to hit a mark every time. You have to be very adaptable in the approach that you use with every different actor.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

The thinking man often rebuked his girlfriend because of her extravagance. Once he discovered four pairs of shoes in her room. "I also have four different kinds of feet," she excused herself. The thinking man laughed and asked: "So what do you do, when one pair is worn out?" At that, she realized he was not yet quite in the picture and said, "I made a mistake, I have five different kinds of feet." With that the thinking man was finally in the picture.

A criatura humana aguenta tudo: é o principal defeito que tem. Pode prestar-se a uma porção de coisas. E é muito difícil de destruir.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.