Jenna Marbles Quotes

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

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

Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

The beauty of the unexpected and unknown, and it's certainly very tantalizing for me as an actor. Other actors can't deal with that; they want to know, but then they make choices and decisions with that knowledge because that knowledge gives them forethought, and they can think about how they want to play something that takes away spontaneity of what they could be doing.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

I think it's better when you're natural, when you just do whatever you want, instead of doing classes where I see all these other people holding back because they've been trained with certain skills or techniques. I'm like, whatever.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

I like uncertainty in roles, and I like uncertainty in art, really.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

The best plan is to have no plan.

When I put my brush to canvas, I never know what I'm going to paint. It's like when you're walking down the street with your hands in your pockets, humming a tune, you don't know what you'll be humming five minutes from now.

My crutch was, in improvs, when in doubt, play insane, because you didn't have to excuse anything that came out of your mouth. It didn't have to make sense.

I like not knowing what's around the corner. It's always been that way, and maybe that's one of the reasons why I'm an actor.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.

If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.

There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.