Quotes About Spontaneity

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

If you're sitting around and doing Chekhov and the cat walks in, you must pay attention to the cat. You cannot continue the dialogue of Chekhov without including the cat. So on live television, we'd automatically go into ad-lib gear.

I love just taking walks and disappearing. I like off-the-beaten-path places and finding street food - even if its hot dogs in a cart. I love the whole idea of that.

The best part about live shows is you have a script, and you throw it out after the first five minutes.

The first 'Blackout!' just started out with us doing the first song, 'How High' - I guess it was 'How High' - and then it just took off from there.

All four of the actors in 'You're the Worst,' we all have strong theater backgrounds. We all play off of each other in that way that you would in theater. You kind of are up for anything out of the blue happening and getting it on film, you know? We're all just open to playing.

In 'Boomerang,' they didn't have a script at all, they just told me to come up with some stuff.

When we did 'Boomerang,' which is one of my favorite scenes, the whole dinner scene was ad-libbed.

When I'm in the studio, I just let it rip. That's my process. I get in the booth, and whatever is on my mind at the time, I just go off and say it.

The only rule is never be bored.

If I was always doing my own thing, I would be bored out of my mind.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

Perfect is boring.

Life should never be boring.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

Scrambling, when no one's around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do that all day long.

There are no Kleenex boxes on these loops, just so you know.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.