Jason McCoy Quotes

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

I get hired because I improvise well.

I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

You have to be able to adjust on the fly, and that is what the great ones do.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

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've never been good at improvising.

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

You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

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

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, sometimes it's almost a whole show where I wing it. It depends on my mood, the energy in the room. For sure, a portion of it is just kind of winging it.

The word got out that I can ad-lib very well.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

I don't work with a lot of preparation. I think very well on my feet, and I'm very good when the pressure is on.

I love to think on my feet, and I love to be able to feel from a close proximity how things are going.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

I'm a sort of in the moment, good on my feet kind of person.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

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 like to improvise.