Terry Jones Quotes

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

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

I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

My technique is different, and I am more spontaneous. I don't like rehearsing.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

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

I love improv-ing, you know, from very early on when I started acting the school that I went to and everything was very big on ad-libbing and improv-ing and messing things up, so I feel very comfortable doing stuff like that.

I like to improvise.

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

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

Most of my act is improvisation. I'm inspired for the moment. Standing there in front of 2,000 or 3,000 people you don't know can be pretty inspiring.

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.

I love improvisation.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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

I've always been into improvisation.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

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

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.