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I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.
Alan Arkin
Word
Before
Knew
Since
Always
Doing
Been
Improviser
Acting
Even
Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.
Alan Tudyk
Master
Improviser
The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.
Ali Farahnakian
Saying
Other
Responding
Lifelong
Taking
Goal
Person
Improviser
Listen
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.
Ali Farahnakian
Funny
Saying
You
People
Practice
Other
Statements
Runners
Onstage
Ideas
Make-Believe
How
Making
Vernacular
Up
Yes
Train
Get
Improvisation
Improviser
Being
Being Funny
Using
Baseball
Baseball Players
Players
Playing
As an improviser, my nature is to take a theme and constantly rework it.
Jason Moran
Nature
Constantly
Take
Improviser
Theme
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.
Lucy Punch
Every
Incredible
Scene
Take
Most
Steve
Him
Himself
Doing
Improviser
Just
Just One
Ever
Spectacular
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.
Marc Evan Jackson
You
Direct
Write
Without
Doing
Offers
Trying
Improviser
Improvising
Being
Anything
Act
Imagine
I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.
Matt Walsh
Good
Great
You
People
Comedy
Guess
At Least One
Take
Allow
Spoiled
Know
Most
Sort
Because
Least
Improv
Get
Improviser
Things
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.
Matt Walsh
Good
You
People
Think
Drama
Write
Never
Because
Gotten
Hired
Improviser
Want
Scripts
Them
Much
Who
Playing
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Maynard Ferguson
Music
Day
Great
Jazz
Over
Know
Read
How
Improviser
Who
Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.
Michael McKean
Wonderful
Amazing
Most
Most Amazing
She
Catherine
Improviser
Really
Actress
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
Rachel Dratch
Fear
Every
Think
Over
Female
Male
Improv
Get
Improviser
Anyone
Biggest
Biggest Thing
Thing
An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
Rachel Dratch
Time
You
Woman
Stage
Kind
Would
Pretty
Guys
More
Advantage
Halfway
Because
Still
Were
Lot
Improv
Get
Improviser
Decent
Eight
Standard
Team
Actually
I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.
Rich Sommer
Good
Stage
Every
Think
Improviser
Certainly
Actor
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
Roscoe Mitchell
Good
You
Composition
Know
Improviser
I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
T. J. Miller
Me
People
Improvise
Think
Know
Trade
Hire
Improviser
Going
Now
I always felt of myself as a composer, performer, improviser. I've never called myself a jazz man. I make art.
Wadada Leo Smith
Art
Myself
Man
Jazz
Composer
Never
Performer
Make
Felt
Always
Improviser
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