Tatiana Maslany Quotes

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

I like to do as much improv as I can do.

I don't want to do procedural: I want to do longform.

To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.

I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I'm kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

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

I'm really thankful for my improv background.

The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.

I saturated myself with the improv community.

I absolutely loved improv! I felt very much at home being onstage. It freed me to be all sorts of people other than myself. It was an escape from myself, if you will. I still love that creative freedom of improv and making people laugh.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.