Ad Lib Quotes

#1. Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.

Lucy Punch

#2. One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed to ad-lib over it. We call it 'panning for gold.'

Nolan North

#3. I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

Bruce Forsyth

#4. Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.

Gary Cole

#5. Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit.

Jerome K. Jerome

#6. We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad-lib.

Ron Atkinson

#7. You might start a new religion yourself, with the creed: 'There is no one so clever as Hercule Poirot, Amen, D. C. Repeat ad lib.'!

Agatha Christie

#8. Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.

Don Rickles

#9. The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

Robert Burchfield

#10. When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

Waite Hoyt

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

Mahalia Jackson

#12. Darkwing Duck and Don Karnage are the most fun to do, because they're both probably the closest to me - I kinda improvise a lot of them, kinda ad lib.

Jim Cummings

#13. Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

Bob Hope

#14. We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Bing Crosby

#15. It takes three weeks to prepare a good ad-lib speech.

Mark Twain

#16. I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

Nick Nolte

#17. In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

Harry Shearer

#18. I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

W.C. Fields

#19. We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...

Brad Paisley

#20. I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

Terrence Howard

#21. Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

Diane Neal

#22. I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

Mike Epps

#23. You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Denzel Washington

#24. No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

Barbara Walters

#25. A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

Danny Wallace

#26. Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French ... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been speaking French for a while now, but he's talking about doing his act in German. Haven't the German people suffered enough?

Andy Kindler

#27. Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

Harrison Ford

#28. The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

Ira Glass

#29. If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

John Wayne

#30. Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. When you strip all the clothes away and the doodads, you have two human beings who were either happy or unhappy

Ray Bradbury

#32. You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.

Stephen Hawking

#33. The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#34. And even now I wonder if creation is both too beautiful and too horrible for a handful of perceptive souls, and if the realisation of this opposing duality can offer them few options but to take leave of their own accord.

Mitch Cullin

#35. Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him.

Maria Montessori