Zach Galifianakis Quotes

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

I really struggle to fight and say lines at the same time. It's hard.

I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

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

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

I'm not used to a script.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.