Improvisational Theatre Quotes

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

I love improvising.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

I think doing The Improv is a little more ominous than doing a college campus because it was so different than anything I'd done.

I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

To a crowd that loves improv, Robin Williams is like Chuck Berry.

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

My act is a little raunchy. When people come to my club, I have to warn them it isn't Robert from 'Raymond.'

Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.

I saturated myself with the improv community.

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.

[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.