Regis Philbin Quotes

I'm a big believer in spontaneity.

I like to work spontaneously.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

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.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

I'm all about spontaneity. I think it makes for greatness.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

I am someone who does not plan a lot. I go with the flow, and I just want people to know me as an actor.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

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 plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I try not to plan that too much.

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

I'd like to be more spontaneous.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

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