Improv Quotes
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Improv Quotes & Sayings
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Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
— Diedrich Bader
You can't be controlling in improv.
— Matt Walsh
Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.
— Catherine Hardwicke
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I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.
— Brian Dunkleman
I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
— Henry Rollins
I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.
— Emma Stone
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.
— Busy Philipps
I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling.
— Danielle Ellison
I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.
— Elizabeth Olsen
Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.
— Ben Schwartz
I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.
— Gillian Jacobs
I think that I can improv.
— Jane Levy
Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.
— Melissa Peterman
When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.
— Jon Favreau
I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
— Martin Short
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.
— Jason Mantzoukas
I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
— Brian Henson
I like to do as much improv as I can do.
— Jordan Klepper
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
— Adam McKay
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.
— Zach Woods
My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
— Darin Strauss
Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
— Lauren Lapkus
I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
— John Michael Higgins
I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.
— Jillian Bell
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
— Steve Buscemi
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
— Ben Schwartz
I did improv at Yale, with the Exit Players. It was great, but they played a little rough.
— Allison Silverman
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
...playing these physical and imaginative group games instantly creates community connection.
— Hannah Fox
River City Improv set the stage for my career.
— Marc Evan Jackson
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
— Rachel Dratch
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
— Wayne Brady
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.
— Viola Spolin
Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.
— Eva Mendes
I'm not an improv guy.
— Curtis Armstrong
You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.
— Mike Birbiglia
The problem with improv is that you're letting an idiot tell you what to do.
— Dino Stamatopoulos
When it comes to improv, Specifics beget specifics.
— Craig Cackowski
From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group ... it all started opening up.
— Kevin James
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.
— Steven Wright
What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
— J. B. Smoove
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
— Amy Sedaris
I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
— Adam DeVine
Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
— Joe Flaherty
Improv is mostly what I've studied.
— Ellie Kemper
I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.
— Kevin Rahm
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
— Wayne Brady
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
— Demetri Martin
I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'
— Amber Nash
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.
— Steve Carell
Pronouns are the enemy of improv.
— Craig Cackowski
There's always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.
— Adam McKay
The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
— Robin Williams
Many of the people I've worked with over the years came from a sketch-comedy background or an improv background, and I've learned a lot from them.
— Megan Mullally
Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'
— Reid Scott
I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.
— Timothy Simons
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.
— Allison Tolman
Every night was improv.
— Kliph Nesteroff
My background is in improv and writing.
— Paul Scheer
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
— Dakota Johnson
I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
— Rachel Dratch
When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.
— Chris Gethard
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.
— Elizabeth Banks
I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life.
— Vinny Guadagnino
I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.
— Darren Boyd
I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.
— Brie Larson
Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.
— Scott Adsit
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.
— Nick Swardson
I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.
— Brad Garrett
I've always loved improv. It's my thing.
— Oscar Nunez
I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
— Ike Barinholtz
When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
— Zach Woods
You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.
— Geoff Stults
I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.
— Elizabeth Banks
I started doing improv my sophomore year.
— Rachel Dratch
The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.
— Jim Gaffigan