DeMar DeRozan Quotes

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I don't really have a routine. I make it up on the fly, or whatever feels right, I'll do.

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.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

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 can't be controlling in improv.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

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.

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

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.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

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

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

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

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

When you're auditioning, hold on loosely. Work hard on it at home, like you always do. But when you're in the room, let a choice happen to you rather than forcing a choice that's not ready to come. You'll surprise yourself and, hopefully, the people in the room.

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

There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

I think, in life, the more you force things, they break. You just let things happen.

I give everything far too much thought. If you think you know what you're doing, then you can kind of relax, and then you can improvise and play and just enjoy the day rather than be chasing the lines.