Quotes About Improvise

The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.

All of the best songs happen on a whim.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

I never like to sit and discuss my character, the other character, our relationship, or anything like that. I feel like if I did my job and I trust that the other person has done theirs, you just go on set, play around with it, chew the scene for a little bit; then we roll, and that's it.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

It's really fun to write something for kids. You can make it a little bit more extreme and crazy than you would for adults.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.

adlib. Deriving from the Latin adlibitum, at will, ad lib means to speak words or perform actions not in a script or speech being used. Ad libitum was first recorded in 1705.

Stanislavski called this the "Magic if …," the daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything seems possible.

She had made a habit of quickly asking her own version of What else can I do?

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

If you're ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good pretend mustache.

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

In prose, if you forget a line, you can say something else in the same context.

'My character wouldn't do that.' That was always my favorite thing people say: 'My character wouldn't do that.' I said, 'Well, it says right here in this script your character does that.'

Part of being a really good chef or cook is being able to fix disasters.