Fiona Dourif Quotes

Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

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

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

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

I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

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

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I love improvisation.

It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.

I like the adrenaline of playing improv - it makes me feel really calm.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

Improv classes were too expensive, so I just started going to open mics. And the day I did it, I did, like, three because I just loved it so much. It was so much fun. And it wasn't good, it was just fun to do. It felt like a release.

There's nothing like live radio. I like the challenge. Throw it my way. Let me go!

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

You have to create the show anew, and find it anew, on a nightly basis.

It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.

I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.