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Quotes About Spontaneity

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
~ Berenice Bejo
Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.
~ Marlon Wayans
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers.
~ Nick Kroll
Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
~ Christopher Guest
I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
~ Adam Scott
When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.
~ Thomas Middleditch
With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.
~ Jesse Plemons
I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.
~ Robert Downey Sr.
That always makes it fun inside the ring when you know you can work with somebody. You can fly off the cuff while you're in there; you can improvise.
~ Michelle McCool
My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster than you could with words. It's like a direct line of instantaneous communication where you don't have to wait for the end.
~ Allan Holdsworth
I like to improvise.
~ Iris Apfel
I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
~ T. J. Miller
One can only improvise what one knows.
~ David Thewlis
It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.
~ Zazie Beetz
It's always fun to improvise.
~ Zach Woods
I like to improvise so much live because I get bored playing the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a lot live.
~ Jim Root
A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be coming up. There's a lot of freedom and space available as you improvise around the chord changes.
~ John Densmore
When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'
~ Catherine O'Hara
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
~ Leo Ornstein
I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a different level because they have a goal, but if you're improvising something that's dramatic, there's not that much to be good at.
~ Greta Gerwig
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
~ Christopher Walken
We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.
~ Tom Bergeron
I love improvising.
~ Lasse Hallstrom