Quotes About Spontaneity

I do the functional stuff. I go to the gym and do all these things by myself. I don't have a routine. I like to do new stuff all the times.

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

I have made a career of bumbling around places, stumbling on landmarks and generally being quite haphazard and shambolic about the way I go about things.

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

I quite enjoy cooking but I'm not consistent. I can't follow the recipe book. If something goes well, I'll never make it again, which is completely stupid. It's a one-shot kind of deal.

My style is how I feel about the moment.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.

It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

I never have fixed subjects that I discuss on stage. I never go on with any particular subjects in mind.

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them.

Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening, And live every day as if it were your last

Be happy Be supportive Be Naughty Be just like the way you are But don't get bored.

Life is too short to be sensible.

Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.

By the time they had arrived at Danny's house, neither of them had come up with a plan. Danny had suggested hoping for a snow day. Wendell had pointed out that it was mid-April. Wendell had then suggested that Danny go to the library and actually read about oceans. This idea was met with the contempt it deserved.

In Windhoek Gottschalk once asked Wenstrup if he thought it made sense to try to plan one's life. Wenstrup didn't think so, at least as far as he was concerned. Plans ran the danger of being too rigid. They killed all spontaneity and led too quickly toward old age. He hardly thought about the future at all and had no idea what would become of him.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.