Libbing Quotes

#1. "Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

Brian Henson

#2. Motivation can be found no matter your situation, the key is to look for it.
Stacey Fowler

Stacey Fowler

#3. Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

Rich Sommer

#4. 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. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.

Aaron Sorkin

#5. On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

China Anne McClain

#6. I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

Andy Kindler

#7. We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dick Van Dyke

#8. I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand.

Joyce Giraud

#9. Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

John Tesh

#10. They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines."
"Maybe that's why it's hard to tell if we're living in a tragedy or a farce."
"We need more special effects and dance numbers.

Bill Watterson

#11. God is not looking for incredibly high notes, intricate riffs or award winning ad-libbing. God is looking at the heart.

Temi Peters

#12. 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

#13. Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.

David Maraniss

#14. You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

Julia Child

#15. Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.

Tamra Davis

#16. I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that.

Jennifer Lopez

#17. So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.

Lionel Shriver

#18. I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.

Lindsay Wagner

#19. In the 'Mass Effect' universe, there is zero ad libbing.

Jennifer Hale

#20. While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

Gabourey Sidibe