Top 321 Improvise Quotes & Sayings

You must improvise, adapt, and overcome.

I do not improvise in heels.

Preparing to improvise is at a level commensurate with mastering the structure in a European classical piece. Another way to define improvisation is spontaneous melody. In order to improvise, a player first needs to have memorized and analyzed the harmonic structure of so many pieces.

You can't make a mistake when you improvise.

When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.

There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

Every now and then, they ask me to come in and improvise with Stanley Tucci for an afternoon. They fly me off to America, I improvise for an afternoon - it's not the hardest, most taxing job.

I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise.

In theatre you can't ad lib, so you want to pick really good material, like David Mamet or Shakespeare or whatever. You want to be really careful about what you do. But in the movies, you do have more wiggle-room. You do have more opportunities to improvise. It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script.

I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.

If I improvise at all on 'The Goldbergs,' it's with the physical stuff.

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

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.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Someone like my father will improvise as much as 90% of the music in concert, but with me it's maybe 10 to 20%. It's sort of the test of how great someone is, the more they can improvise correctly and still be true to the raga they're playing, and still keep it new and fresh the whole time.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.

You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.

I like to improvise.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome!

To work from nature is to improvise.

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

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

Improvise. Write your own damn story.

I get hired because I improvise well.

Everything is real but we write the jokes too and improvise them.

I improvise a lot and try something new every couple of years.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

It's always fun to improvise.

The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.

Ancelotti has allowed us to enjoy the games and also to improvise.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

One can only improvise what one knows.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.

Actors improvise on the stage and enjoy interacting with audiences.