Quotes About Improvise

This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

Are you making something up in your head, miss?" —FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A Little Princess Zener

Staying in character avoided all of that, allowed you to prolong your respective roles for just a bit longer,

Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Everybody must have a story. For those who don't, we need to invent one.

Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship instead of crying out in despair, and improvise solutions from thin air.

Once upon a time the general problem of the City Chaotic looked so simple. Boulevards and civic monuments were going to create the City Beautiful. After that proved insufficient, regional plans were to create the City Sensible. These proved unacceptable and now we are struggling, sometimes it seems at the expense of everything else, to improvise the City Traversible.

Play the role," Lula said. "That's what we do. We pick a role and we play it. What role you want to play?

Unlike movies, on stage there are no second chances. Everything is live. If someone messes up, forgets a line, gives the wrong cue, you need to have the presence of mind to move the play along.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

Part of the mystique of shows like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is the idea that they begin with a couple of plot lines, and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It's not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything's a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that.

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.

To work from nature is to improvise.

Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it!

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

What I'd love to do is every now and then go, 'Oh my God, I've got this amazing idea for 'Doctor Who.'