Katy Mixon Quotes

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.

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.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

Probably the best part about being an actor is that you get to be a traveling wanderer.

What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.