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I love improvising.
I've never been good at improvising.
I'll probably never stop improvising.
Improvising political dialogue is not easy.
I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.
I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.
I prefer improvising, rather than creating comedy out of thin air.
Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.
There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.
If you're improvising with Paul Reiser, man, you'd better hold on tight!
When you're improvising, you're relying on this connection to creativity.
I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
If you're too hung up on improvising 'correctly', you will almost always fail.
There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.
Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.
That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.
If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.
Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.
Very early on, I started improvising. I was more interested in the music that came out of me than any music I heard.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.
When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.
Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.
I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.
I had such a broad array of classes, in improvising, in clowning, in Shakespeare. It was so great to just be inundated with all that.
I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.
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.
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
I think I'm much more of a guitar-songwriter than a singer. I start with chords and then test out melodies rather than improvising over it.
I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.