Quotes of Improvising - somelinesforyou

“ Although my parents were playing jazz for me when I was a kid, I didn't pay much attention until I saw someone my age improvising, playing jazz. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ”

- Stephen Root

“ Maybe it's because improvisational people have the same kind of understood language when you're working together. It really only took, like, maybe an hour… feeling out rhythms and things like that. But it wasn't a lot of improvising, and there wasn't a lot of fooling around on the set… ”

- Eugene Levy

“ You tell somebody you're an improviser and they think you're doing Random Acts of Comedy and it's just like, a bastardization of what I think is the purest form of art. People still don't get it, they still don't understand that…well, number one, it's hard to prove to people that you're improvising when you're on TV… ”

- Amy Poehler
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