Acting Improvisation Quotes

I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

I need to grow as an actor. The wonderful thing is you never stop learning, and as my only interest is trying to perfect what I do, it's wonderful because I'll never succeed, so I'll have to keep working.

When I was in a couple of movies in the '80s, I was winging it.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

When I was in theater school, we did these relationship exercises - you would play my sister, and I'd give you all this information about my sister, and then we'd get up and perform this scene, and you'd pretend to react as my sister. It was like therapy!

I'm not a good improv-er, which is what a lot of comedic actors are really good at. I have failed miserably when I've been asked to improvise.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

I'm not from that world where you get on your feet and somebody gives you a suggestion and you improv your way through things.

I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.