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I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones. ~ Julianne Moore
Improv quotes by Julianne Moore
I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie. ~ Martin Short
Improv quotes by Martin Short
I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City. ~ Steve Carell
Improv quotes by Steve Carell
When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S. ~ Amy Poehler
Improv quotes by Amy Poehler
I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted. ~ Rob Corddry
Improv quotes by Rob Corddry
I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn't appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things. ~ Allison Tolman
Improv quotes by Allison Tolman
I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush. ~ Tatiana Maslany
Improv quotes by Tatiana Maslany
When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture. ~ Zach Woods
Improv quotes by Zach Woods
I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv. ~ Brian Dunkleman
Improv quotes by Brian Dunkleman
I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.' ~ Amber Nash
Improv quotes by Amber Nash
John Kerry made a joke about Bush being a moron, and now Bush wants morons to think it was a joke was about the troops ... Now, John Kerry has apologized. He said he made a botched joke and admitted that he has a joking problem. He has checked into an improv group and revealed that as a child, he was molested by a clown. ~ Bill Maher
Improv quotes by Bill Maher
I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do. ~ Ryan Stiles
Improv quotes by Ryan Stiles
Practice your improv more than learn your lines. 'Cause there's no way you'll be able to learn all those lines in a short time. You have to realize what you know and what you don't know - and what you don't know, just come up with three alternate lines or improv that you can put in that spot. ~ Anthony Mackie
Improv quotes by Anthony Mackie
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. ~ Hayden Schlossberg
Improv quotes by Hayden Schlossberg
I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him ... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so. ~ Nicholas Stoller
Improv quotes by Nicholas Stoller
We have a full writers' room, and with something like 'MyMusic,' we've scripted it out with professional writers. There is some very basic improv from the actors, but everything is very to the letter, so it's easy to edit down to an episode. There are fun little things an actor might throw in there. ~ Benny Fine
Improv quotes by Benny Fine
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. ~ Jason Bateman
Improv quotes by Jason Bateman
Yeah, it was always a low-budget passion project. It's my directing debut. I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it, but it's not a big studio movie. It was an experiment that turned out better than I thought. ~ Matt Walsh
Improv quotes by Matt Walsh
The thing about the performance part ... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel. ~ Ilana Glazer
Improv quotes by Ilana Glazer
Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens. ~ Kevin Hart
Improv quotes by Kevin Hart
These games inspire laughter, spontaneity, ensemble building, physical and vocal expression, concentration, self-discovery/reflection, self-esteem, and, ultimately, I believe, good health. They get adults, and teenagers too, playing again, which is no small feat. ~ Hannah Fox
Improv quotes by Hannah Fox
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble. ~ Jason Mantzoukas
Improv quotes by Jason Mantzoukas
When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics. ~ Craig Cackowski
Improv quotes by Craig Cackowski
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called 'Boiling Points' on MTV. ~ Nick Kroll
Improv quotes by Nick Kroll
My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too. ~ Katherine Moennig
Improv quotes by Katherine Moennig
Pronouns are the enemy of improv. ~ Craig Cackowski
Improv quotes by Craig Cackowski
We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines. ~ Josh Gad
Improv quotes by Josh Gad
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. ~ Steve Buscemi
Improv quotes by Steve Buscemi
A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is. ~ John C. Reilly
Improv quotes by John C. Reilly
I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always. ~ Rashida Jones
Improv quotes by Rashida Jones
I think that I can improv. ~ Jane Levy
Improv quotes by Jane Levy
I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated. ~ Paul Feig
Improv quotes by Paul Feig
I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that. ~ Jennifer Lopez
Improv quotes by Jennifer Lopez
I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable. ~ Hannibal Buress
Improv quotes by Hannibal Buress
I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter. ~ Martin Short
Improv quotes by Martin Short
Theatre sports is the best improv training period. ~ Wayne Brady
Improv quotes by Wayne Brady
The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit. ~ Kevin Hart
Improv quotes by Kevin Hart
Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging off of it: One pull, the whole thing unraveled. ~ Marisha Pessl
Improv quotes by Marisha Pessl
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Improv quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk
I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show. ~ Brea Grant
Improv quotes by Brea Grant
'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me. ~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
Improv quotes by Mary Lynn Rajskub
I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back. ~ Kym Whitley
Improv quotes by Kym Whitley
In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York. ~ Jake Johnson
Improv quotes by Jake Johnson
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail. ~ Emma Stone
Improv quotes by Emma Stone
Eah, you don't get a lot of meatheads doing improvised theater to begin with, and that's always been my thing. I talk about the nerd/meathead dichotomy on my podcast a lot, but there was a time when I was doing UCB full-time and playing men's league rugby in New York City, and I was like the funniest, artsiest rugby player, and the bro-iest improv comedian. I've always managed to sort of be in both sides. ~ Jon Gabrus
Improv quotes by Jon Gabrus
I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years. ~ Fortune Feimster
Improv quotes by Fortune Feimster
My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me. ~ Lauren Lapkus
Improv quotes by Lauren Lapkus
Improv classes were too expensive, so I just started going to open mics. And the day I did it, I did, like, three because I just loved it so much. It was so much fun. And it wasn't good, it was just fun to do. It felt like a release. ~ Michael Che
Improv quotes by Michael Che
I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv. ~ Brian Henson
Improv quotes by Brian Henson
Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters. ~ Diedrich Bader
Improv quotes by Diedrich Bader
The problem with being an adult most of your life is not having been a child long enough.

(08/26/2019) ~ Wyatt Pringle
Improv quotes by Wyatt Pringle
I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. ~ Tatiana Maslany
Improv quotes by Tatiana Maslany
We improv-ed scenes that didn't happen in the movie. We improv-ed the scenes that are written in the movie without the dialogue as written. We played around a lot to try and figure out just how we could flow with what was already written in the story and how we could highlight those imbalances and those points at which we came to loggerheads. ~ Bruce Greenwood
Improv quotes by Bruce Greenwood
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny was funny; I loved to laugh. I always liked people I found generally funny. ~ Michael Keaton
Improv quotes by Michael Keaton
Benefits of Improv To the Editor: Re "Inmate Improv," by Anna Clark (Op-Ed, Dec. 31): It was not surprising to me that an improvisational theater workshop would help a prison inmate adjust to life after his release. Pretend play has been shown to improve the executive-function skills in preschool and school-age children. These skills include the ability to control emotions and behavior, resist impulses, and exercise self-control and discipline. As poor executive-function skills are associated with high dropout rates, drug use and crime, it would behoove all adults involved in child-rearing to encourage role-playing or "improv." STEVEN ROSENBERG Fairfield, Conn., Dec. 31, 2014 The writer is director of the Elementary Reading Program at the University of Bridgeport School of Education. ~ Anonymous
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Harvard is Classical Military Theory, Improv is Vietnam ~ Tina Fey
Improv quotes by Tina Fey
Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show. ~ Nick Swardson
Improv quotes by Nick Swardson
I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results. ~ Rob Riggle
Improv quotes by Rob Riggle
When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that. ~ Andy Daly
Improv quotes by Andy Daly
In improv there are no mistakes, only beautiful happy accidents. And many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. ~ Tina Fey
Improv quotes by Tina Fey
We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches. ~ Tatiana Maslany
Improv quotes by Tatiana Maslany
I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time. ~ Emma Stone
Improv quotes by Emma Stone
His face was so close to mine that I could feel his breath against my skin. His scent was familiar, and it was that familiarity that decided me. Instead of pulling away from him or continuing with the improv and 'fainting' in his arms to pretend I was dead, I wrapped my arms around him and pulled him into me, closing the short distance between our lips.
I kissed him with everything in me. I put all my pain and sorrow and passion and love for him into that kiss, and his mouth opened under mine, meeting me passion for passion, pain for pain, and love for love.
And then the stupid bell rang. ~ P.C. Cast
Improv quotes by P.C. Cast
It's so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn't matter. ~ Andy Daly
Improv quotes by Andy Daly
It's great when improv is encouraged. It's a really fun thing. It depends on who's in the movie and how their process works, as well. It takes a director who is open to that because you have a script, but then something funny could happen on set. So, to have people around you who encourage improv is really exciting. ~ Lily Collins
Improv quotes by Lily Collins
I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends. ~ Kevin Rahm
Improv quotes by Kevin Rahm
I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens. ~ Vanessa Bayer
Improv quotes by Vanessa Bayer
I do a little improv in my shows. Kind of like our movie, I'll do beats and ideas of dialogue, but I think there's less pressure because it's a live show. If you mess up, the audience laughs because we don't really know what we're doing. But as far as shooting, that was very scary, trying to make a point and drive the film. It definitely helped improvising. ~ Charlyne Yi
Improv quotes by Charlyne Yi
When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume. ~ Ken Jeong
Improv quotes by Ken Jeong
One of the favorite games I play, when I improv or take on a character, is what I like to call arrogant ignorance. That's the game I enjoy playing most. ~ Rob Riggle
Improv quotes by Rob Riggle
Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst. ~ Melissa Peterman
Improv quotes by Melissa Peterman
Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon. ~ Allison Tolman
Improv quotes by Allison Tolman
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. ~ Elizabeth Banks
Improv quotes by Elizabeth Banks
Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people. ~ Harland Williams
Improv quotes by Harland Williams
He hadn't been this nervous since the last disastrous night at the improv, and he firmly told himself to calm down as he blotted at the tablecloth, glancing upwards to see Emma wriggling out of her summer jacket, pushing her shoulders back and her chest forward in that way that women do without realising the ache they cause. ~ David Nicholls
Improv quotes by David Nicholls
The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club. ~ Jim Gaffigan
Improv quotes by Jim Gaffigan
When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ~ Stephen Root
Improv quotes by Stephen Root
Doing improv really got me started in my whole career. ~ Lauren Lapkus
Improv quotes by Lauren Lapkus
Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv. ~ Steve Carell
Improv quotes by Steve Carell
I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience. ~ Nolan Gould
Improv quotes by Nolan Gould
I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me. ~ John Michael Higgins
Improv quotes by John Michael Higgins
Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer. ~ Jim Rash
Improv quotes by Jim Rash
We can't really do any improv on 'The Big Bang' because we don't understand a lot of what the dialogue means to begin with, because of the physics jargon. ~ Johnny Galecki
Improv quotes by Johnny Galecki
These games create a space for us to play together and connect with our joy; they also develop imagination, confidence, critical thinking, trust, connection and understanding within groups ~ Hannah Fox
Improv quotes by Hannah Fox
Sometimes with films you have a freedom to be able to, Okay, we got that take so let's try another one where suddenly I'll say this, or you'll get to improv. You can't do that with stage. We have to make it new every time, and also within the structured settings. ~ Sebastian Stan
Improv quotes by Sebastian Stan
Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that. ~ Taraji P. Henson
Improv quotes by Taraji P. Henson
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over. ~ Paul Feig
Improv quotes by Paul Feig
You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up. ~ Mike Birbiglia
Improv quotes by Mike Birbiglia
I started doing improv my sophomore year. ~ Rachel Dratch
Improv quotes by Rachel Dratch
I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv. ~ Scott Aukerman
Improv quotes by Scott Aukerman
All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying, for even thinking you could write in the first place. It's all fear. If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way. A lot of studies say that despite all our fears in this country - death, war, guns, illness - our biggest fear is public speaking. What I am doing right now. And when people are asked to identify which kind of public speaking they are most afraid of, they check the improvisation box. So improvisation is the number-one fear in America. Forget a nuclear winter or an eight-point nine earthquake or another Hitler. It's improv. Which is funny, because aren't we just improvising all day long? Isn't our whole life just one long improvisation? What are we so scared of? ~ Lily King
Improv quotes by Lily King
To improv-nerd-out for a second, it's like the most aggressive yes-anding you can do - if someone's like, "Yeah, you're super thin, right?" And you just pull that into a character and do seven more episodes of the podcast and remember to bring that up. ~ Jon Gabrus
Improv quotes by Jon Gabrus
Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv. ~ Eva Mendes
Improv quotes by Eva Mendes
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young. ~ Dakota Johnson
Improv quotes by Dakota Johnson
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny. ~ Kristen Wiig
Improv quotes by Kristen Wiig
I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent. ~ Scottie Thompson
Improv quotes by Scottie Thompson
I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after. ~ Giovanni Ribisi
Improv quotes by Giovanni Ribisi
I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it. ~ Lauren Lapkus
Improv quotes by Lauren Lapkus
I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage. ~ Bill Hader
Improv quotes by Bill Hader
Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. ~ Amy Poehler
Improv quotes by Amy Poehler
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