Quotes About Improvise

What are you, tap dancing up there? You want a put on a show, do you? Well, the theater's closed for the night. Take your act on the road; it's four o'clock in the morning,goddamnit.

There's really no way to plan how to play an alien.

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in.

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.

Every actor is different, but it's a very fine line when it comes to how much information they have versus how much they need to let their imagination fill in the blanks.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.

My imagination needs therapy.

My imagination needs therapy.

Talking out loud to fictional characters is just the tip of the iceberg.

My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star...

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn't present, I was forced to improvise.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

Life doesn't come with a script, so quit acting.