Steve Buscemi Quotes

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

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

I like to do as much improv as I can do.

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.

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 know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

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

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

I'm really thankful for my improv background.

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.

We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.

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

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

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

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

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try new things and play around in different genres.

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

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

I can't imagine doing anything without being an improviser. I can't imagine trying to write or act or direct without what improvising offers you.