Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

I like to improvise.

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

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I may play the same songs night to night, but I never play them the same way.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

The beauty of stand-up is that it's very flexible, it's very malleable and immediate. Whatever is in your head that day you can verbalise in some way that night. It's the medium that suits me best.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

I love improvisation.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

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

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.