On working with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal: "These guys are hilarious. You go in to work with the lines memorized, and the second you get out there it`s like - Oops, there goes the script! They`re rewriting it, improvising on the spot and I have to ...
Charlie Hofheimer
[on improvising dialogue as Scott Evil in scenes with Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997):] "[Dr. Evil`s] whole shhh! thing was made up on the spot. It`s a testament to Mike Myers` brilliance. They just keep going after the wr...
Seth Green
[on improvising:] "... three movies with Mike Myers certainly loosened me up. He told me that there`s a switch in your brain that censors you, makes you second- guess. You have to turn it off, shut out the fear of being embarrassed and making a mistake. B...
Seth Green
There`s a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there`s a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who`s making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a c...
John Cassavetes
{On directing] "I did it once. It was an ass-breaker. You work yourself to death. You`re the first one up in the morning . . . I mean, we shot that thing [One-Eyed Jacks (1961)] on the run, you know. You make up the dialog the scene before, improvising, a...
Marlon Brando
I always improvise, you know. That`s my thing. Luckily, I`m a writer, so I always try...If there`s great writing, improvising just adds a little bit more to it. Just takes it to another level. `Cause an actor, believe it or not, really knows his character...
John Leguizamo
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.
Shelley Berman
When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those.
Tina Weymouth
When I`m on stage, it`s a little world I`ve created where I`m sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we`re improvising, I`m with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don`t have those guaran...
Colin Mochrie
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.
Wynton Marsalis
The character of Annie Doultry is plainly a self-portrait of Brando. There are transcripts of conferences he and Cammell had, and Brando did a lot of improvising, playing the Annie Doultry character. Plainly he saw this as a part that he might play in a m...
David Thomson
Even if you`re improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
John Cale