Impromptu Acting Quotes

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

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

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

I don't really have a process. I'm very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

I always say if you've seen good acting on television, those actors are really good. Because there's just not enough time. You don't have any preparation.

I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don't really have a lot of self-awareness. It's kind of a trait that performers don't have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.