Quotes About Spontaneity

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail. He laughed again. You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

I made a point to have 'mini-adventures' on the road. In Tucson, that meant swinging by a massive airplane graveyard. A quick detour through the Grand Tetons was a Wyoming highlight. We stopped for cheese in Wisconsin and barbecue in South Carolina.

We wish to work in total freedom.

I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.

'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.

I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight.

I don't have a real plan when I do an interview. I have some themes that I want to hit. But I don't have a set list of questions that I knock off.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don't have the time to over-think things and how that helps things out creatively.

As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or says no to something you're suggesting, then it's very clear that they're putting the onus on you, because they're not comfortable with it themselves.

I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.