Quotes About Improvisation

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role playing and stuff.

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.

You can do a lot of impromptu in dubbing. You can bring in different characters and different accents.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

I like to do as much improv as I can do.

I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of 'yes and-ing' applies to everything.

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.

We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

'Sicario' was a lot of improvisation.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

I've always been into improvisation.

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.