Billy Burke Quotes

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

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.'

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

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.

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

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

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

The best plan is to have no plan.

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

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

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.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

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.

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

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

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.