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Quotes About Improvise

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
~ Sam Rockwell
If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.
~ Catherine O'Hara
Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.
~ Jewel
To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.
~ Jim Rash
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.
~ Zach Woods
I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.
~ Mackenzie Davis
With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
~ Vincent D'Onofrio
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
~ Carter Burwell
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
~ Berenice Bejo
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.
~ Marlon Wayans
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers.
~ Nick Kroll
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
~ Dan Phillips
Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
~ T. J. Miller
I get hired because I improvise well.
~ Marc Evan Jackson
I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'
~ Paul Guilfoyle
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
~ Christopher Guest
In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.
~ Christopher Guest
I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
~ Adam Scott
When you improvise alone, you don't risk a lot, but doing an improvisation when you are two is even more difficult because you need to listen exactly to understand what is going to happen.
~ Sylvie Guillem
With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.
~ Jesse Plemons
My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.
~ Allan Holdsworth
A good play can teach so much about culture. One can also improvise a lot with the medium and use it to teach kids.
~ Himani Shivpuri
I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
~ T. J. Miller
One can only improvise what one knows.
~ David Thewlis