Thomas Lennon Quotes

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

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.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

My style is very spontaneous.

I am someone who does not plan a lot. I go with the flow, and I just want people to know me as an actor.

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I like to work spontaneously.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

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