Improvising Quotes - page 2

Catherine: Why commit Evil? Goetz: Because Good has already been done. Catherine: Who has done it? Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. View quote
David Walliams
Americans have been good at improvising for a long time, but in the last few decades, we have gotten very sloppy about the rote memorization of facts. That's a discipline issue. You need the rote skill in order to have something to improvise off of, otherwise you are simply playing air guitar. View quote
John Medina
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. View quote
Robert Englund
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. View quote
Julian Casablancas
Until Abstract Expressionism you had to have something to paint about, some kind of subject matter. Even though Kandinsky and w:Arthur Dove were improvising earlier, it didn't take. They had to have symbols, suggested natural images or geometry, which was something real structurally. That gave them something to paint about. What was new was the idea that something you looked at could be like something you heard. View quote
Kenneth Noland
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet. View quote
John C. Reilly
All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other. View quote
Albert Brooks
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things. View quote
Alan Arkin
Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody. View quote
Bill Hader
When I do the roles, when I'm in the room and auditioning, I'll ask the director if they're cool with me adding stuff, or just improvising while we're doing it. And I would say, like, 90 percent of the time, they say, 'Absolutely.' (Ben Schwartz)
I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors. View quote
Ioan Gruffudd
You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. View quote
John Abercrombie
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. View quote
John Schlesinger
My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music. View quote
John Zorn
I love improvising. View quote
Lasse Hallstrom
I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies. View quote
Laura Mvula
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out. View quote
Caroline Shaw
If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight! View quote
Daniel Stern
You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know. View quote
Mike Leigh
The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got The Devil Wears Prada, and its why I even got in the door for Mad Men. (Rich Sommer)
Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor. View quote
Seth Numrich
When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those. View quote
Tina Weymouth
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess. View quote
Violante Placido
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers. View quote
Zach Woods