Quotes About Ad-lib

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

Stand-up keeps you on your toes because it's instant. With TV and movies, you have to wait for the numbers to come in to see what happened at the box office. With stand-up, it's right there, that night, in your face.

I don't like rehearsing.

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

I like to do as much improv as I can do.

With 'The Crazy Ones,' we were really encouraged to improv and go off script.

I think with a lot of comics, their gift is improv. They don't have a script. They'll have a couple of good ideas they start with, and go from there. And it's the same in wrestling.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

Honestly, I think we in the WWE are very underrated as performers. What we do would be very difficult for even an experienced actor. To go out and sometimes have 15 minutes of verbiage, sometimes have to ad-lib and then, of course, have other variables such as the interaction with the audience, it can be challenging.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

The great thing with comedy is that I don't memorize ahead of time like I did on 'Breaking Bad.' With 'Breaking Bad,' I wanted to know those words inside and out, really have my lines down so I could say them verbatim. But with comedy, you keep it a lot more loose.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind

I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I'll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads.

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I was going to be unable to read it. So I just thought, 'I'm going to say, as coherently as I can, whatever I can.'

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.