Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.

I like to work spontaneously.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

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 need to be spontaneous sometimes. Sometimes I find that the little detail or nuance that you add to it that's based on what's happening at the time that's not very rehearsed often ends up feeling like the funniest thing.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

My style is very spontaneous.

I have never planned anything. 'Kung Fu Yoga' was also never planned or anything.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

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

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

The stage and the live crowd taught me to think on my feet, to improvise.

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

You must plan to be spontaneous.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

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

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

I like the spontaneity; I like to just get people together and hit 'record' so hopefully it has got a liveliness about it.