Top 321 Improvise Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.
When we work on a new theatre piece, we improvise a lot. But it's the opposite in opera, where everything is fixed.
Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.
When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.
One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.
I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.
Keerthy Suresh knows how to improvise and reworks her expression on the spot.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
That always makes it fun inside the ring when you know you can work with somebody. You can fly off the cuff while you're in there; you can improvise.
Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.
One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
With 'The Soup,' obviously it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter properly.
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.
The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.
I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well.
Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.
I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.
So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.
When you make a film, you never know how it will turn out, especially when you improvise it.
I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got an idea in my head and then I'll pursue it 'til I get there.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.
If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.
I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.
You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production companies that all have serious equity investments.
The way Apatow works, you do it scripted a couple times, and then he just kind of lets you go and improvise.
Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.
You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.
My solo stuff for live shows is very meandering. I write a lot of slower bits that give me room to improvise and play with a character.
With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."
When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.
I noticed that when it came time to improvise, my students would often make mistakes.
On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.
As I got more confident, I was able to let actors improvise, and do long takes. It's 10%, 5% you learn and experience. The rest you just have or you don't have.
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.
If you got the truth, you put it out there, and everybody says, "Oh, my God. That's me." And then they improvise also. They take off, as well.
The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.
If a singer wants to improvise while recording a song, he has to get the permission of the composer.
For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.
