John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.

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

I try new stuff every time I perform. I have steps I do that I know are definite, and stuff I can make up right then and there and then forget.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

It's good to be prepared, but spontaneity is very important - just to let yourself go and let it be whatever it is.

I am someone who does not plan a lot. I go with the flow, and I just want people to know me as an actor.

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.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

Available light is any damn light that is available!

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

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 don't like a lot of rehearsing.

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

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

I like to work spontaneously.