Quotes About Improvisation

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

The artist never entirely knows We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

I think Pringles' initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles was a laid-back company. They said F**k it. Cut 'em up.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

Mientras tanto, en plazas y calles la vida sigue e improvisa, como si la muerte fuera una invención, una mentira. Y a lo mejor lo es. Uno termina aferrándose a esa imposibilidad, sin advertir que más adentro el alma desfallece.

Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

We have to play it longer because there are no numbers or letters.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up!

The hotel I'm in has a lovely closet. A nail.

Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They went "Aaaaahhhh..."

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.