Jane Levy Quotes

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

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

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

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

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.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

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

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit of trying to predict the future.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

I don't really plan ahead very far. I have never known what I'm doing more than a few pages ahead.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.