Terrence Howard Quotes

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

I need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

I like to work spontaneously.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

I am someone who does not plan a lot. I go with the flow, and I just want people to know me as an actor.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

All my performances have been unrehearsed.

I am spontaneous and not a method actor.

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

I like to improvise.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

I try not to do anything by formula.

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