Quotes About Spontaneity

My cheat meal is whatever I think about. One thing about me is whatever comes to my mind, if I want it, I'm going to eat it.

There is a child in all of us.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.

I have a childlike spirit.

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Every show I play, I try and make it unique. I don't pre-plan my sets and always try and drop new music from my label or artists I am supporting. Equally, I spend countless hours making edits and adding my own touch to the music I want to play.

I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'

Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.

I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it's so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.

I'm not a big planner. Things always sort of surprise me.

I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale back and re-focus on making moments again.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

I always like to come with stuff people don't expect me to. I like the element of surprise.

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.