Quotes About Improvise

In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for 'Velaikkaran,' I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.

I don't prepare for my characters.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

One of the things I like about what it is that I do... is that people can have a little bit of pretend.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well.

The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

You just make it up as you go along.

It isn't a philosophy at all," Jack Bernstein maintained, hammering fist against palm. "It's just a gang of strong-arm men who happened to find a power vacuum and moved right in. They've got no overriding program of government. They simply do what they think is necessary to perpetuate their own rule and keep things from blowing up again. They grabbed power, and now they improvise from day to day.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

The only rule is that there are no rules.

When you improvise, do you think of the chord changes or the melody? Both. This is an interesting question which Im unable to answer adequately. If the melody is the skeleton of the particular object, then the chord changes are its wardrobe, its changes of clothes. I tend to pay rather more attention to the latter than to the former. All I want is just a trace of skeletonthree bones from which the rest may be reasoned out.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.

Good actors, never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

A creative mind is always on (unless it's not).

Whenever I'm making songs, I am pretty much, quote unquote, freestyling them into existence.