CM Punk Quotes

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.

I like to improvise.

All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.

The word got out that I can ad-lib very well.

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.

I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

When I became majority leader in Washington, I was interviewed constantly. I was always happy to talk to the press, but I drew the line at the Sunday morning talk shows on television. After a full work week consisting of long days and frequent late evenings, I insisted on keeping my weekends free for my family and friends.

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

I wanted the audience to write stories and then read them out if they wanted to. It's always the best part of the show because people are so imaginative.

I was an art student when I was a boy, and as an art student you don't have to talk to anyone - you just have to paint really wonderful paintings. It's very unlike being an actor, where you have to talk all the time.

My greatest career mistake is giving interviews.

If you start adapting to audiences, you're really second-guessing the situation, and it becomes a bit more like cabaret.

I don't think it's necessary to do stand-up to be a presenter, but I like it, because it keeps me sharp, especially when something like 'Take Me Out' is 80% is ad-libbed, so that works for me.

I love improvisation. I mean, it's hard to edit, because things don't necessarily fall together - you have to find ways to give it a dramatic scope, shape. But it's so much fun.

The moment for me, thinking I might actually want to do comedy professionally, was when I did public speaking at school. I found out I was good at getting up in front of class. In the fifth grade, I did a speech on comedy.

I love doing things on stage with other people.

I'm trying all kinds of crazy stuff at house shows just for my own amusement and to see what the people are gonna do.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

For me, acting is an art.

I personally don't lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I'm very intimate with what I'm saying and why I'm saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.

I'll be honest: I've never wanted to do anything other than perform.