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Improvise, Adapt and Overcome! -- Clint Eastwood
Improvise. Write your own damn story. -- Eric Lange
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go." -- Hank Azaria
Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind. -- Matthew Bonifacio
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise. -- Mark Steyn
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac -- Edmond Rostand
More of me comes out when I improvise. -- Edward Hopper
That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise. -- Itzhak Perlman
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. -- George Gershwin
You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib. -- Denzel Washington
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. -- Dane Cook
If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something. -- Dimebag Darrell
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. -- Christopher Walken
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. -- Buddy Hackett
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it. -- Paul Simon
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising. -- Christopher Walken
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. -- Sylvia Plath
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. -- Charlie Trotter
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise. -- Marjane Satrapi
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. -- Fred Frith
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. -- Dave Brubeck
My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music. -- John Zorn
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it. -- Larry David
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. -- Frank Gehry
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. -- Kenny G
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. -- Amy Poehler
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting together a community kitchen to feed everybody for the next few months. -- Rebecca Solnit
There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement. -- Steve Carell
I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right. -- Richard Dawkins
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way. -- James Franco
I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go. -- Eddie Izzard
I do not improvise in heels. -- Amy Poehler
You must improvise, adapt, and overcome. -- Conor McGregor
To work from nature is to improvise. -- Georges Braque
I get hired because I improvise well. -- Marc Evan Jackson
I like routine. It enables me to improvise. -- James Nares
You can't make a mistake when you improvise. -- Patti Smith
You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script. -- Orlando Bloom
Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise. -- Jewel
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. -- Carter Burwell
Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. -- Ingmar Bergman
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. -- Isaac Asimov
I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer. -- Rob Paulsen
To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn. -- Jim Rash
The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL. -- Steve McNair
You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over. -- J. B. Smoove
I probably have the most fun on projects where there's some room to improvise. -- Andy Daly
The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research. -- Rolf Potts
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre. -- Viola Spolin
When people know the desired destination, theyâ??re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there. -- Chip Heath
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. -- Hubert Laws
A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise. -- John Updike
Who the hell do you think you're, Kiddo?I don't do thinking, Sir. I simply improvise. -- Toba Beta
I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime. -- Kate Braverman
Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun. -- Max von Sydow
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise. -- Pauline Oliveros
If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch. -- Amy Poehler
Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words -- Berenice Bejo
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane. -- Adam Pally
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go. -- Joy Bryant
Every time you build a golf course, it's not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise. -- Pete Dye
So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise. -- Brian Henson
When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script. -- Jake Schreier
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge. -- Kent Beck
I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel. -- Billie Holiday
Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird. -- T. J. Miller
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. -- Charles Darwin
If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials. -- Chris Gethard
I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. -- August Wilson
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another. -- Lee Konitz
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. -- Annie Dillard
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent. -- Aubrey Plaza
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. -- Terry Bozzio
The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful. -- John Kao
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. -- Ry Cooder
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. -- Seth Rogen
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. -- Jillian Bell
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. -- Zach Woods
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully. -- Rebecca Solnit
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. -- Thomas Lennon
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. -- Anthony Hopkins
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 -- Chris Kattan
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. -- Denis Leary
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. -- Scot Armstrong
What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free... -- Henri Matisse
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise. -- Joe Satriani
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. -- Gabriel Macht
When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise. -- Michael Jai White
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do -- Dan Castellaneta
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do. -- Dan Castellaneta
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera. -- Brian Henson
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. -- Kristen Hager
I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh." -- John C. Reilly
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. -- Kyrie Irving
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise. -- Charlie Haden
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. -- Woody Allen
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it. -- Denzel Washington
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. -- Woody Allen
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. -- Jack Prelutsky
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. -- Lesley Manville
I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise. -- Dan Phillips
Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib. -- Jim Cummings
The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in. -- Craig Roberts
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn. -- Gary Burton
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in my stand-up, I improvise initially, never questioning it too closely. -- Robert Klein
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She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life. -- David Nicholls
The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film. -- Abdellatif Kechiche
Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like. -- Oren Peli
Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come. -- Burt Bacharach
We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal. -- Flea
Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise. -- Hiromi
I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down. -- Steve McQueen
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians. -- Chad Smith
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material. -- Mike Figgis
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz. -- Dave Brubeck
So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask, 'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?' -- Ornette Coleman
It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else. -- Harold Ramis

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