45 Quotes About Improvisation

The basic concept is that they throw you into the middle of a scene where you're the only one who's completely unprepared. You step through a door and someone says, 'Thank god you're here.' From there you play the scene as if you know what the hell's going on, with a live studio audience watching, expecting, actually demanding, you to be funny. p282

Some current ideologies would double as improvisational comedy because you must agree with them by adding further laughable concepts.

Improvisation is the power of spontaneous observation.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

We feel safe in following the past successful efforts & fear the innovation or improvisation, but we don't realize that everything still & not updated is bound to be backdated and open to decay.

- ¿Acaso se os ocurre una forma mejor de vivir?- Por supuesto que sí: ¡improvisando! -rió Ariano. Sus ojos eran realmente misteriosos. Su cara sonreía pero su mirada reflejaba una pintoresca y agresiva inteligencia.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

I am when i act with spontaneity, improvisation on a planned life.

O era contradictorio, o había que redefinir el término "improvisación". Siempre se piensa que improvisar es actuar sin pensar. Pero si uno hace una cosa por un impulso, o porque le da la gana, o directamente sin saber por qué, de todas maneras es uno el que la hace, y uno tiene una historia que lo ha llevado a ese punto de su vida; y entonces, lejos de no haber pensado ese acto, no podría haberlo pensado más: lo ha estado pensando cada minuto desde que nació.