Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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

My whole act is off the top of my head.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

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

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

I haven't planned a reaction on anything... If you do, you've screwed up.

All my performances have been unrehearsed.

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

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

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.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

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.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

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.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

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

I like to work spontaneously.

I don't have a game plan. I have no idea what I'll be doing next.

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.