Improvising Quotes - Page 5

• The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that's honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.

  Vince Vaughn

  Character, Listening, Different

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I don't want to see an experiment. Experiment at home - when you show up on stage, I want to see a result. I think a lot of improvisers, you'll see them some nights and they just stink, and they go, "Well, we're just improvising." Like that's a license to have a shitty night!

  Z'EV

  Home, Night, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.

  Brian Henson

  Blessing, Get Better, Puppets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  New York, Men, Numbers

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• I think initially it's terrifying because going into a show where, you know, "Oh, I'm going to be on stage for two hours, I have no lines to memorize, I have nothing really prepared," and actually I say that, the show is not all improvising.

  Brian Henson

  Thinking, Two, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show.

  Brian Henson

  Shows, Prepared, Percent

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I did The X-Files, there was certainly less of that because the script was as it was and it was such a wonderful script and it was quite complex and there wasn't a hell of a lot of improvising I could do to bring to the table, but I guess what I did bring was a sense of self and that the reason I was cast was because I did come across as someone who possibly was only human for a short time.

  Rhys Darby

  Self, Tables, Scripts

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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• Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.

  Amy Poehler

  Believe, Games, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."

  Z'EV

  Thinking, Problem, Enough

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.

  Andy Daly

  Fun, Writing, Spontaneity

  "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

  Harold Ramis

  Bills, Edgy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Mike Leigh

  Long, Cameras, Film

  "Lynne: People quote your films at parties. Mike: Those are lousy parties". Interview with Lynne Ramsay, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2005.

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• When I got this saxophone, it became a religion. There wasn't TV, there wasn't much money, and there was just a real dedication.... I never thought of it as an art. It was just work that I loved. Not just work, but work that I loved. I loved it so much, I would play it if nobody listened to it. Any jazz musician, if there's nobody around to listen, would play just for the sheer joy of improvising music.

  Stan Getz

  Art, Real, Dedication

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• I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano.

  Michael Hersch

  Writing, Essence, Piano

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• I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Remembering that life can be full of surprises is useful in any part of your life. You can try a new way of singing a song you’ve performed for years, a new way of showing your family your love for them, or a new recipe. Don’t just play the licks you know. We’re all improvising all the time — it’s good to recognize that and embrace it.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Years, Play

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Writing, Waste, Wasting Time

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising.

  John McLaughlin

  Writing, School, Play

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• I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."

  John C. Reilly

  Doors, Rooms, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Although arguably, it's my job to dig deep whether I'm improvising or not. It's just their style. That's the way they feel like they get what they want. I mean, they're really good storytellers, so I love being in their hands.

  Amanda Peet

  Jobs, Mean, Love Is

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I find myself improvising a lot. But, sometimes I'll come us with a chorus or just one line and it will sort of hang out for a long time before it get's flushed out into a real living song.

  Kate Brown

  Song, Real, Long

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.

  Josh Groban

  Home, School, Piano

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My favorite dish is cleaning out the fridge on Sunday night and improvising a great medley.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Sunday, Night, Cleaning

  Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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