Quotes About Improvisation

You can plan, but what happens on a football field cannot be predicted.

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.

You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.

In high school, AAU, even prep school, I didn't really know how to play basketball. It was kind of like, 'Let's throw the balls out, go get buckets, just score, and go play.'

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

I don't work with a lot of preparation. I think very well on my feet, and I'm very good when the pressure is on.

Gosh, my own podcast, Las Culturistas,' is so unstructured and loose. There's no preparation that goes into it. It's just about plugging in and playing.

I don't prepare for a live show.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

I don't prepare for any role. I go on the sets and do it.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

Nothing can really prepare you for live TV because you never know what's going to happen. I think, for me, what really helps is I know what I'm looking for when I'm shooting things, so it definitely helps to have that eye and know what camera you're looking at.

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

I love fumbling around on the guitar, I love being present with people.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.