Memphis Depay Quotes

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

You do stuff that gets a reaction and you think 'that's a winner' and then it never sees the light of day. But the thing with improvisation is that 90% of what you come up with won't be used and for good reason. But you keep going for the occasional gem that you might come up with. You do a scene and a lot of the time. We wouldn't cut. So, you come up with something that might be funny and then you go, 'alright, what else'? So, you kind of throw stuff against the wall and see what happens. But you've got to be prepared to make a fool of yourself.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

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

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

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

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

I love the idea of cooking, but I don't like using recipe books, so I'll put a mish-mash together, and it might be amazing by total accident, or it will be a catastrophe.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

The only time I judge an actor on set is if they're not failing; if they get it right all the time, I start to question it. I feel like it's too easy.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

I have made some mistakes. No, a lot of mistakes. If you want to develop a new thing, a lot of mistakes will be inevitable. We should be allowed to make mistakes.