A Quote by Rich Sommer

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

Rich Sommer

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Rich Sommer
American - Actor
Born: February 2, 1978

I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.

Scot Armstrong

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

Tim Roth

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

Edith Evans

In my career, I've had kind of a strange trajectory as an actor. I started out doing movies and theater and stuff, but then I had a terrible problem with stage fright as an actor on stage, and I quit stage acting for a long, long time.

Fred Melamed

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type of guy. That's why I thought the stage is just right for me.

Ed O'Neill

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

Tina Fey

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

Arthur Lowe

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

Amy Poehler

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

Rob Corddry

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

Quentin Crisp

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

Rachel Dratch

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Lauren Bacall

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was.

Matt Besser

I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.

Bobby Darin

There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.

Rakul Preet Singh

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