Quotes About Discovery

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

Improv is such a huge part of my background, and a huge part of character discovery is really being inside the character and trying to think through them without the limitations of the script.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

In fact, I heard Bird first, and had got well into listening to him. You know, it's the kind of accidental thing that awareness of a player is: what's available, what somebody happens to play for you.

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

There is no terra incognito left.

The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.