V. S. Naipaul Quotes

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

You get further if you let your mind run free and do whatever you fancy at that particular time. I don't agree with planning far ahead and saying, 'this week I'm doing this, that week I'm doing that.'

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.

I'm not someone who feels like I have to do it the same way. I never feel restricted. It all should grow out of different moments and if it goes completely different that's how it should go.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.