I probably am a lazy artist and probably don`t control things as much as some people would like- but that`s my business. And if my style is too loose or improvised for some people`s taste, that`s their problem- totally. The fact is, I`m not the greatest H...
Robert Altman
[on W.C. Fields] His comedy routines appeared spontaneous and improvised, but he spent much time perfecting them. He knew exactly what he was doing every moment, and what each prop was supposed to do. That "my little chickadee" way of talking of his was n...
Bing Crosby
It`s real acting, in a sense. You`re reacting spontaneously to things you`ve never heard before. You can either do it or not, and if you`re with a bunch of people who can, there`s nothing more fun. - on improvised acting.
Christopher Guest
It`s absolutely impossible to improvise. Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It is like sending a missile to the moon. It isn`t improvised. It is too defined to be called improvisational, too mechanical. Art is a scientific operation, so I can say...
Federico Fellini
(On Taxi Driver`s infamous line) "You have no idea that years later, people in cars will recognize you on the street and shout, `You talkin` to me?` I don`t remember the original script, but I don`t think the line was in it. We improvised. For some reason...
Robert De Niro
The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won`t succeed even if one of the musicians takes co...
Al Sevier
Personally, I`ve found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
Derek Bailey
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
Andrew Shields
Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade,
Cindy Moore
I can definitely see these robots having a much more instrumental role in this and the following years than they did at the beginning of the conflict, due to the fact that a lot of the improvised explosive devices are on the small secondary streets,
Arlen Spector
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.
Joe Zawinul
I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.
Joe Zawinul
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
Lars von Trier
The heavy traffic near Rustamiyah posed a threat to both civilians and Soldiers from (vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices), ... The area is safer for everyone now.
Kevin Farrell
Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade, ... The explosion set fire to the vehicle.
Cindy Moore