Susan Sarandon Quotes

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

If I know a guy who's a really good improvisational actor, I'd be foolish not to let him because he'll come up with goodies and all kinds of little freebies that you get.

In real life, you don't know what's going to happen to you, so why would your character know? It's liberating to play the emotion your character is feeling at the time and not know what's coming up. I like it.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I typically try not to think too hard about what I'm going to do in a certain scene with a certain actor in a certain moment because I think that kind of lends its way to not being as improvisational and sort of carefree as one would hope.

I feel it's easier to sit in the backseat and go, "Oh, yeah, let's go there." You're not worried about getting to the destination. But the guy or the woman who has to get you to the destination is worried about a lot of other things, so my job as an actor is to try as many things as possible, be as open as possible, listen, and keep my heart open.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

The key to acting is less acting and just reacting.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.

Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

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

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I prefer doing TV, where it can be different every time.

Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.

When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.