Berenice Bejo Quotes

My whole act is off the top of my head.

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.

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

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

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

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.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

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

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.

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.

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

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

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

All my performances have been unrehearsed.

Flair was a guy who 90 percent of your match was called on the fly, while Savage was a guy who had 90 percent of it set in stone before the match began.

It is scary for me to do a film by directly showing up on the sets without any preparation.

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

I never have fixed subjects that I discuss on stage. I never go on with any particular subjects in mind.

One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

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

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.