Zitat des Tages über Improvisator / Improviser:
I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
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.
I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
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.
Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.
Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.
I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
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.
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.
My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.