Fran Tarkenton Quotes

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

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

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

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

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

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

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

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

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.

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

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.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

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.

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything.

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

Things you don't expect come up, and you have to adapt. You can't let it throw you off. You have to cope. Those are all really valuable skills, in life and racing.