Scarlett Johansson Quotes

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

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

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

I've never been good at improvising.

I don't rehearse on either of my shows, 'Family Feud' or my talk show. I never rehearse with the guests. I don't want to have any preconceived thoughts, notions, because that kills my creativity as a host and as a stand up.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

I was so intimidated by the thought of improvising back in the '80s when I was in Chicago. I think the opportunity only even came up once that I can recall, and I turned down the offer. It was to go improvise in some club in the suburbs or something. Good God, I couldn't think of anything more frightening than to get up there without a plan.

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

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

I never record anything like a demo, I just go for it.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

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

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

It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.

I think the best thing you can do for an audition is to just do your work, be creative. It's OK to be spontaneous.

I always imagine people give succinct answers. I have no prepared thoughts on what I do.

I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well.

When you go live, anything can happen. It excites me because it means I have to be on. When the camera's on, whatever happens happens.

I've found in the past that if we planned the show a night before, once we slept and woke up, we weren't in that mood anymore. Because I really think doing a live show means you should be exploring your live feelings, and planning is not good.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

It's always fun to improvise. What's weird is that when you're recording, you're by yourself, for the most part.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

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.