Quotes About Improvisation

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

When life gives you scraps, make something with them.

Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works greO

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,He learned to play when he was young.But all the tune that he could playWas "Over the hills and far away."

improvisamos un techo para protegernos de los murciélagos que andan por ahí hablando con voz de gente

Men in public life did their best to avoid accidental events or actions from being seen as unlucky. On a famous occasion during the civil war, Caesar tripped when disembarking from a ship on the shores of Africa and fell flat on his face. With his talent for improvisation, he spread out his arms and embraced the earth as a symbol of conquest. By quick thinking he turned a terrible omen of failure into one of victory.

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Gasman' was something I wrote on a beer mat in a pub.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this? No? Alright.' I was just trying to be funny about anything.

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I feel like you gotta know how to roll with the punches and how to just be able to work and think on your feet.

I always like being a director in terms of giving acting notes and punching up on the fly.

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.