Top 507 Improv Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
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.
You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.
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.
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.
You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.
I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.
I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.
Soccer is the most improvisational sport. There are no set plays. And in soccer, as in improv, you are trying to find the flow.
Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we're going to be able to teach improv better than whoever's there already. In general, I think I could say that.
I used to do improv in New York, and it was sort of embarrassing to tell people that I was the Web video girl and having to explain that was a viable form of entertainment.
Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.
I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.
I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!
Really, improv is all about creating for what's around you, in the moment, so it fits in a way that you can't see the seams. It's like a great jazz combo. I still do it.
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
Improv is so different, it's such a collaborative thing, you're working with other people, nothing is planned and it's kind of this community mentality, whereas stand-up, you're alone and it was really hard.
I'm definitely not frowning on improv; I mean, I've been doing it for years. I just think that there's some styles of comedy that warrant a tighter pace.
My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.
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.
Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.
Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.
I started working right away as a kid, so I didn't have a chance to go to improv school or anything like that; I was already a working actor.
After working with Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Jonathan Mangum, I said, 'I am never going to talk about improv again.'
Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.
I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of 'yes and-ing' applies to everything.
There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.
When I moved to New York, I didn't know how much improv and comedy would play into my life. I thought I was going to do theater and Broadway and stuff.
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.
Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.
I'm not from that world where you get on your feet and somebody gives you a suggestion and you improv your way through things.
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.
It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.
I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.
Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They're like circus folk. They're freaks themselves.
When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I studied acting. Did sketch comedy in L.A.
Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
When I direct - everything I've directed has had improv in it, because I think there's something special in a performance the first time it's said out loud that's hard to recreate.
I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.
When I first went onstage I even had a suit jacket on with the sleeves rolled up because that's what I saw on TV or at the Improv that everybody did.
I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.
The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
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.
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.
I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon.
