Improv Quotes - page 4

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)
I've always loved improv. It's my thing. View quote
Oscar Nunez
My background is in improv and writing. View quote
Paul Scheer
I started doing improv my sophomore year. View quote
Rachel Dratch
I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it. View quote
Rachel Dratch
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. View quote
Rashida Jones
Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky. View quote
Rich Sommer
Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it. View quote
Scott Adsit
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. View quote
Scottie Thompson
My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night. View quote
Tatiana Maslany
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)
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. View quote
Tatiana Maslany
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. View quote
Vanessa Bayer
I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life. View quote
Vinny Guadagnino
Theatre sports is the best improv training period. View quote
Wayne Brady
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage. View quote
Wayne Brady
After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you. View quote
Tina Fey
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin. View quote
Fergie
Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written. (Steven Wright)
Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv. View quote
Steve Carell
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. View quote
Steve Carell
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally. View quote
Saffron Burrows
Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really. View quote
Paul Rudd