Quotes About Spontaneity

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

Like a sporting event, live events are the one thing you can't have anytime you want them.

The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.

It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

I come from 'black-box' theater, where basically, you make your own adventure out of nothing.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence. And so I closed my eyes and tried.

I climbed into my car and started to head home, my visor down against the glare of the sun. But at the last minute, I turned left, because I never had before, and because I had time to go down different road.

Ever wanted to make out in an elevator?" I asked, grinning.

Well, spank my butt and call me red!

The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

If in doubt about what to do in a place, just start walking through your new environment. Walk until your day becomes interesting—even if this means wandering out of town and strolling the countryside. Eventually you'll see a scene or meet a person that makes your walk worthwhile. If you get "lost" in the process, just take a bus or taxi to a local landmark and find your way back to your hotel from there.

The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you.

And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Listen: we are here on earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different! —KURT VONNEGUT, TIMEQUAKE

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

A young man came for psychotherapy because, though he was intellectually very competent and seemed superficially to be very successful, his spontaneity was almost completely blocked.

My childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is.

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.