Best Improviser Quotes

#1. Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?"
"Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.

Elle Kennedy

#2. I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

Rob Corddry

#3. I don't think I'm anything like the improviser. I'm not. I do better with at least an outline.

Kathleen Turner

#4. 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.

Marc Evan Jackson

#5. An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#6. I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

Tina Fey

#7. As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. "No, we can't do that." "No, that's not in the budget." "No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar." What kind of way is that to live?

Tina Fey

#8. I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

Neil Peart

#9. An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

Rachel Dratch

#10. Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

Camille Paglia

#11. I'm an improviser at heart, when I'm writing, I'm improvising in my head. When you're an improviser on stage, you can never be precious about anything, you can't control what anyone else is going to do. The best stuff comes out of moments of inspiration that spontaneously happen.

Scot Armstrong

#12. Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

Frank Hanny

#13. I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

Rich Sommer

#14. As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

Fred Frith

#15. People know my background and for people who need an improviser, I'm one of the people they think to use if I'm appropriate for the part.

Jason Mantzoukas

#16. I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

Rachel Dratch

#17. 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