Brie Larson Quotes

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

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

Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'

The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.

I was never in an improv group. But when I went to school, we would do it all day long with friends, not knowing what it was called.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

It's always hard to watch bad actors improv on your skit.

I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.