Michelle McCool Quotes

For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out the window because you need to be collaborative. You shouldn't have too many ideas about where it goes before you get into the room with the director and other actors.

I'll tell you what, the chemistry that I had with Bret 'Hitman' Hart in the ring, and the respect and the trust we had for each other, was unbelievable.

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

In a way, as an actor, you do all the preparation and then you want to forget it and just play the scene. As a director, you can't forget it because somebody will remind you that you forgot something. But you can know your plan well enough that you still have a certain amount of freedom.

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

I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.

'The Mindy Project' is really best when you're loose, and we improvise a lot, and that's what's best.

When you get down to it, wrestling is wrestling, and when you get in the ring and start performing, it's up to you and the guy you're in there with to do it and perform it.

When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me in the best ways.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I like to improvise.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

I just love the process of working with other actors.