Unscripted Performance Quotes

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

Typically I go in the studio and whatever I'm contemplating that day will wind up being a song. I don't come in with lyrics... I just go in and let it happen.

When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.

I don't like planning what am I gonna say to the crowd. Sometimes the show takes a whole different twist.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

I've been a live performer longer than I've been a television performer. For me, live is where it's at.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I find that well-written scripts are put together very carefully. Once you start to ad-lib and add words to sentences, there's a slacking that happens. When it's good writing, it's taut. I'm not judging people who do ad-lib.

I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.

I never took an acting class, so I've made all my mistakes on film.

I've never been good at improvising.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I haven't got an ad lib for people throwing bread rolls at my hat.

Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.

Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

There was a time when a musician was forced to act in a video. Seeing a singer step too far outside of his comfort zone to pour all of his high-school-drama angst into a poorly scripted scenario was a sight to behold.

That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged down with a lot of preplanning and repetition. If I do something and it gets a laugh, I don't want to do it again. Why bother? I'm just repeating myself. It's boring.