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Quotes About Improvise

As an actor, I've been taught to just stay with your scene partner, and whatever they do, let it affect you, be spontaneous.
~ Alex Sharp
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.
~ Dane Cook
I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.
~ Lauren Lapkus
Keerthy Suresh knows how to improvise and reworks her expression on the spot.
~ Nani
Everything you do on stage is always a response to something, not the next line.
~ John Kani
Stand-up comedy is a different game all together. You have to improvise on the spot if you feel that the audience isn't enjoying your performance. In a movie or serial, you are in a situation while on stage you create a situation.
~ Johnny Lever
'When Harry Met Sally' will endure. It will be the standard rom-com that others will improvise on for years to come.
~ Camille Perri
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
~ Robert Greene
I'll probably never stop improvising.
~ Matt Besser
I consider myself a good layman's cook. Ninety percent of the time, I'm successful with what I set out to make, and I can improvise. Yes, I own a mandoline. Yes, we have a Vitamix.
~ Lake Bell
There is no chance of retakes during live shows and that really challenges me.
~ Mandira Bedi
My imagination has problems with plot mechanics.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Look for the little story. Look for the story about people. Then you wrap it in a generous swaddling of space ninjas and swamp monsters and explodey-boom-boom-pyoo-pyoo-zap.
~ Chuck Wendig
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.
~ Toby Jones
Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.
~ Tarja Turunen
When you're onstage in theater, if you mess up a line, there's no 'Cut! We'll get it again.' It's full steam ahead.
~ Jerrod Carmichael
That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
~ Laura Benanti
You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.
~ Rosie Perez
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later.
~ David A. Adler
Novels are make-believe and play for adults.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I work a lot of things out on stage nowadays rather than writing them in big blocks.
~ Stewart Lee
One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.
~ Billy Howle
I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
~ Sacha Baron Cohen