Quotes About Spontaneity

Truly, I am a woman of the last minute. When I was pregnant, I organised three different hospitals because I couldn't decide where I wanted to have my baby: London, Rome or Paris. In the end, I decided to go to Rome, arrived on the Monday and gave birth on the Saturday.

You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.

I do find that there's a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.

I don't work with a lot of preparation. I think very well on my feet, and I'm very good when the pressure is on.

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.

There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.

I don't prepare for a live show.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

I don't prepare for any role. I go on the sets and do it.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.

The idea of interviewing someone is that you are getting their first off-the-cuff impression or response. You don't want them to have the chance to really prepare.

With TV, you don't get much time to prepare. It's all done that day itself, on the set. Shoot, and leave.

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

I look at some young commentators who sit down with piles of notes, and of course, what are you going to do if you've spent hours preparing all this stuff? You're going to bloody well read it out. Boring!

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

I was on my way to law school when a friend of mine at an extras agency said, 'Do you want to come to this movie set and get paid $100 bucks a day to pretend you're at a party?' And I was like, 'Yeah, summer holiday, let's do it.' So I went, and on lunch, the writer asked me to audition for a role, and I got it.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.