Quotes About Spontaneity

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

I prefer improvising, rather than creating comedy out of thin air.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.

If you try to make things happen, they start to feel presented. They start to feel premeditated.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

I don't care who I align with. Things happen naturally.

When you kind of don't care, for some reason, that's when things happen.

I'm not a classical player. I don't want to be a classical player. I love to improvise, because things happen that never happen anywhere else.

Don't think, just do.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving - you just gotta be you.

More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don't put much thought into.

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

I like acting impulsively, but I'm also extremely thoughtful about what I do. So, it's not like someone would say 'Don't do something,' and I'd automatically go, 'I'm gonna do it anyway.'