Quotes About Improvise

I've always done theater. I've never thought of myself as a comedic actress in any way. 'Anchorman' kind of cracked that open. When I got a small part in 'Anchorman,' I didn't know it was possible on camera to improvise. So I was like, 'What's happening?'

I heart my job. I get to make things up for a living.

You can't just bippity-bap with your dipple-stack. - Aunt Polly

Don't play what's there; play what's not there.

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

Get it 80 percent right and then correct it later.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.

The way Apatow works, you do it scripted a couple times, and then he just kind of lets you go and improvise.

For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Attachment guarantees that you will wake up every morning with a mission: to prove you are who you think you are—today. But it's a total energy drain. you're so busy performing a role that you miss out on the freedom to improvise, to be real rather than rehearsed.

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

I have found out what it's like to be crazy. It is to stand apart and observe ordinary life all around you with the panic of an actor on stage who has forgotten his lines and his business. What one doesn't realize in ordinary mental health is that daily life is a show. You have to put on a right costume, to improvise right speeches, to do right actions, and all this isn't automatic, it takes concentration and work and a simply

I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

My favorite lineup is just a trio, because then every night you can improvise and change the repertoire. Keyboards and brass can be great, but it puts you in a different ballgame because you're not quite as free. You have to stick to the arrangement of the song.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

I've tried to force a solo before, but sometimes it's like, 'That thing don't really fit, man!'