Michael Jordan Quotes

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

I hope I'm always surprising people, and I hope I'm always surprising myself.

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.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

You have to stay true to yourself and where you're coming from, and sometimes people see you in a different light, but you have to take it in and try to be positive about anything.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I take improv classes. Improv is something I can use in any aspect of life.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.