Quotes About Improvisation

I want to try something on situational comedy.

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.

Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

You only feel as good as your last sketch.

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their natural expression of the best they can possibly be comes out of them because there is no boundary to hold them back... That's the mentality that I'm trying to create, recreate and hold on to forever.

Jazz was my first love.

I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.

I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play.

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

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