Quotes About Improvisation

Writing is a two-party democracy. To the left are those who write stories from their heart, or according to the other side of the aisle, from the seat of their pants. On the right are those who write stories from a meticulously constructed outline.

The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible. In

Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens

Sounds like you've got it all planned out. Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes. And that's a lot. I laugh. It sure is, she says with a sigh.

Science teachers and the mentally ill, that's all Jazz is for.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

Herzen declared that there were "no solutions": history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.

For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.

When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

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 old dictum is that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy," and the special-ops team is already regrouping and improvising a new plan. He hears the sharp, disciplined fire

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

If I don't have red, I use blue.

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Then I wondered if it would look weird if I wrapped up a few hot dogs to take with me for later.

it is easier for us to make light of things which we know well than of things which take us unprepared.

For a time Jerry toyed with appearing in another improvisational play called Story Theater, in which he and Carbone considered and rehearsed singing Frankie Avalon's hit Venus, but changing the key lyric to "penis.

I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream--now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. In the context of a story, a fairly boring thought in a character's head can work better than a brilliant one, and a brilliantly laid-out structure can be so much worse for a story than one that is more haphazard.

David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'