Roddy Piper Quotes

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

It's always fun to improvise.

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.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I try not to do anything by formula.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

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

But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.

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.

I like to work spontaneously.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

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