Quotes About Improvisation

Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

I like being out on a limb and not know what we're doing and why: just deal with it, the mayhem, you know?

I really enjoyed working on 'Dumb & Dumberer' with Cheri Oteri, maybe because we are both into improvisations. We were meant to act together.

I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.

You would find in a lot of Zep stuff that the riff was the juggernaut that careered through and I worked the lyrics around this.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

In my live show, it will feel like I'm making up everything as I go, and a lot of it I do. I riff with the audience and see what happens.

We'll go in one direction with one album, and then we like to do the opposite right away. But it's not like we ever have an idea before we start - that would be too artificial. It all starts from just sitting in a room and playing.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having things written down, too.

I love the rush of doing live TV - you never know what will happen next.

If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

My dream is to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm going to do everything to make that happen.

No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in.

If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

I don't like scripts.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.