Improv Quotes - page 2

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. (Elizabeth Banks)

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Elizabeth Olsen

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

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Emma Stone

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

For art, the intervention of capital always signals a further degree of mediation. To say that art is commodified is to say that a mediation, or standing-in-between, has occurred, & that this betweenness amounts to a split, & that this split amounts to "alienation". Improv music played by friends at home is less "alienated" than music played "live" at the Met, or music played through media (whether PBS or MTV or Walkman). In fact, an argument could be made that music distributed free or at cost on cassette via mail, is less alienated than live music played at some huge We Are The World spectacle or Las Vegas niteclub, even though the latter is live music played to a live audience (or at least so it appears), while the former is recorded music consumed by distant & even anonymous listeners.

Hakim Bey

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

Brad Garrett

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

Dakota Johnson

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

Olivia Munn

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Demetri Martin

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)

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

Amy Sedaris

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

Paul Feig

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

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

Alan Thicke

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.

Albert Brooks

When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.

Aubrey Plaza

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

Adam McKay

I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.

Ben Schwartz

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

Chris O'Dowd

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)

But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

Ellie Kemper

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

Gillian Jacobs

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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