Quotes About Improvise

I started to improvise a cutting remark, because I am methodical by temperament and like to see plans carried out when they have been made ...

Tell me half a cup's worth of story and we'll call it a night.

Because jazz musicians improvise under the pressure of time, what's inside comes out pure. It's like being pressed to answer a question before you have a chance to get your lie straight. The first thought is usually the truth.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

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want of a better idea, she washed her face with the available hand soap and dried

Well you improvise with some people better than with others… [Mike Nicholls and I] had the same kind of playfulness. We enjoy the same kind of pretend. As kids do. You know. If he had come and said: 'I'm a doctor, are you sick?' I would have said, if I was kid: 'I don't feel good'. Because I wouldn't have said: 'Whaddya mean?' I would have known what he was doing. We were very childish for our age.

After you've practiced for an hour or so, turn down the lights and record yourself playing. Improvise and go nuts, then playback what you've recorded and listen for your strengths and weaknesses.

Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I'm feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

My roots are in classical music and jazz, and I want the freedom of being able to improvise. This freedom is possible only in a live concert.

The No. 1 thing you have that costs nothing is your imagination: role play.

Growing up the way that I did - I grew up with a lot of cousins - you just have this imagination, and I love going and telling different stories. I'm a clown.

I don't ever really plan my sets. I just get out there and feel the energy of the crowd.

he described himself in interviews as 'hallucinating gently for a living.

Make a thing where there was none, kids. It's crazy what it can lead to.

play with whatever the day brought in.

The essence of the character is created through roleplaying and imagination.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

I just listen to true-crime podcasts, do some weights and pretend I know what I'm doing.

Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.