Rachel Dratch Quotes

I haven't done improv since I was in middle school.

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

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.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

I didn't think; I experimented.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

When I was shooting 'Mud,' every day was my favourite! I had so much fun on this film and loved working with all the cast and crew! It was a great experience.

I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll take every suggestion, but I want there to be some room for actors to grow.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.