Improvise Quotes

• I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Dance
  • Knowing
  • Taught

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Trade

• If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Helps

• So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?'

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Want
  • Play
  • Instrument

• I like to improvise.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Like
  • Improvise

• I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Ability
  • Improvise
  • Verbally

• You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Work
  • Respond
  • Improvise

• I do not improvise in heels.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heels
  • Improvise

• Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Die
  • Improvise
  • Unafraid

• The Puppets continue to improvise during their shows, but it's a very different sort from back in the old days.

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Shows
  • Old Days
  • Meat Puppets

• If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • Truth
  • Improvise
  • Put Out

• When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

  

  Michael Jai White
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Wasted

• On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.

  

  Neil Flynn
  • Character
  • Play
  • Improvise

• I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Sing

• When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Energy
  • Scripts
  • Improvise

• The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Improvise

• You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

  

  Joy Bryant
  • Thinking
  • Improvise
  • Let It Go

• Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Philosophy
  • Search
  • Directions

• If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Improvise

• I'm a vegan. But, no one believes it because when you're out in the field, most of your meal options involve meat with a side of something fried. I've learned how to be creative and improvise and can eat anywhere - even a steak house or a gas station.

  

  Nicole Lapin
  • Vegan
  • Options
  • Improvise

• I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Important
  • Improvise

• I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

  

  Sharlto Copley
  • Acting
  • Situations
  • Improvise

• My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Father
  • Grandfather

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