Improvisational Quotes

"Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation".

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

Yes, sometimes people get irritated, starting with my brother Luke in BR. He would get pissed at me, like, `Why don`t you just say the lines that you wrote?` - on whether or not his improvisational skills bother fellow actors

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I`m not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

(on improvising:) "... three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there`s a switch in your brain that censors you, makes you second- guess. You have to turn it off, shut out the fear of being embarrassed and making a mistake. Being a good improvisational actor is all about being in the scene, getting out of your head. Conan O`Brien is my favorite interviewer because he pays attention and has no game plan."

It`s absolutely impossible to improvise. Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It is like sending a missile to the moon. It isn`t improvised. It is too defined to be called improvisational, too mechanical. Art is a scientific operation, so I can say that what we usually call improvisation is in my case just having an ear and eye for things that sometimes occur during the time we are making the picture.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.