Felicity Jones

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

English Actress

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

American Director

Steven Wright

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.

American Comedian

Zach Woods

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

American Actor

John Ratzenberger

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Paul Guilfoyle

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.

Rob Paulsen

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

Neeraj Kabi

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

Indian Actor

George Gershwin

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

American Composer

Ben Schwartz

Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.

Use 'improvise' when you have to speak or react suddenly without time to prepare.

Unexpected Situations

You might need to 'improvise' if the audience's reaction is different from what you expected.

Speech Flexibility

'Improvise' often implies being inventive with limited resources.

Resourcefulness Required

Improvised items are not usually meant to be permanent.

Short-term Solutions

'Improvise' conveys an ability to think fast when facing new challenges.

Quick Thinking

Use 'improvise' for finding new ways to handle crisis or pressure.

Adapt in Crisis

In music, 'improvise' suggests a freedom to express creativity in the moment.

Creative Freedom

'Improvise' in music often means to spontaneously create, differing from typical structured play.

Spontaneity

To 'improvise' in music doesn't usually follow written notes or scores.

No Fixed Notes

 And method acting said you don't have to plan every muscle in your body; instead, you have to use your body to find the right movement. You have to use your sense memory to reconstruct the emotions and kind of think with your body to find the right expression -- improvise, play off your scene partner. And this came at the same time as I was reading about this trend in cognitive psychology,

Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...

 There's a lot of abrasion on these wires, little bits of metal sticking up. They're just the sort of thing that would cut through rope really easily, especially if we start bouncing on this thing as we're descending. So I reckon if we put over the top of that. That is a very improvised rope protector.

Alex Honnold Rappels...

 And this turned out to be a little more dramatic than we expected it to be, because none of the participants would even so much as strike these baby dinosaur robots, so we had to improvise a little, and at some point, we said,

Why we have an emotional...

 wisdom depends on experience and not just any experience you need the time to get to know the people that you're serving you need permission to be allowed to improvise to try new things occasionally to fail and to learn from

Our loss of wisdom -...

 frustrated that the world doesn't fit in with his or her ideas. Rather than revolution, we're much more interested in evolution, this idea that things gradually evolve by adapting and improvising to the changes of the world.

Bjarke Ingels: 3...

 No, that's really two worlds. Civil aviation is something that we know very well. We have a hundred years of experience. And you can adapt really precisely. With that, I have to adapt to something new. That means improvise.

Fly with the Jetman PIPE...

 A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule, as the janitors knew when to ignore the job duties in the service of other objectives. A wise person knows how to improvise,

Barry Schwartz: Our loss...

 his own improvised army grew stronger eventually he learned that the only way he was going to achieve his goals was to engage all the races he sought help from blacks Indians mulattoes mestizos

The impact of Simón...

 it usually adorns its costume with sponges and seaweed as these are most often sir hand but given the chance it improvises a trait that helps the dresser crab maintain perfect camouflage

Dresser crab camouflage...

 She knew when to trust her instincts. And so that project taught me another lesson about life, which is that, when in doubt, improvise.