Quotes About Improvise

I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere else.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

Miles Davis saying, "Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them.

With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

I am not a good cue card reader.

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

Christopher Guest, he'll call and say, 'We're doing this movie, and I'd like you to play _' and he gives you the character, then I always like to enlarge on the character.

Tulip: Okay, let me tell you what you're doing here-- you're writing a story. You've got the plot and dialogue from Melrose Place and fucking Baywatch, and you're writing yourself a little story in your head... The trouble is, you're using me as one of the characters.

Life is a lot like jazz… it's best when you improvise.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

Jazz is a fighter. The word 'jazz' means to me, 'I dare you. Let's jump into the unknown!'

I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can't predict what you're going to say next.

I haven't got an ad lib for people throwing bread rolls at my hat.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.