Quotes About Improvise

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

Surprise is a huge element in acting.

When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me in the best ways.

Let us pretend that my mind is a taxi... and suddenly you are riding in it.

Morality is as much an art as a science, and it calls for a certain versatility from us, the ability to improvise and respond to actual circumstances and particular situations.

Oh, God. She'd now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She'd never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.

God improvises. Man systematizes.

I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh."

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

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

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.

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

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner's imagination.