"Improvisation is terribly haphazard."

-- Leo Ornstein

#Improvisation Quotes

“The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.”
“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”
“I have doubts! I have such doubts!”

Source : John Patrick Shanley (2008). “Doubt (movie tie-in edition)”, p.61, Theatre Communications Group
“You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.”
“The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.”
“I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.”
“Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago”
“I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.”

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