Quotes About Improvisation

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

To be honest, I struggle with words. I often forget them, you know, the official ones. Instead, I make words up. I use home-made words that sound similar to the real thing. Usually, they're some sort of confused hybrid of two existing words.

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.

I just kind of, like, put stuff together. I don't really try to make it seem like a 'look.'

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.

You seem to have a real talent for improvised dishonesty.

Oh, just let it out. I don't care how it looks; it'll be hidden in the back of my cloak anyway. We can pretty it up later." "We?" Jean snorted as he loosened the doublet with a few strategic rips and slashes. "Me, more like. You mend clothes like dogs write poetry.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.