Al Michaels Quotes

Spontaneity is everything to me, working without a net.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

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.

The people I enjoy most are the ones who don't stick to script.

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 plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

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

Things kind of happen organically with me.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I like to work spontaneously.

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

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

I try not to plan that too much.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.