Unrehearsed Acting Quotes

When I direct - everything I've directed has had improv in it, because I think there's something special in a performance the first time it's said out loud that's hard to recreate.

In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.

I don't want actors to know anything. The more they are lost, the better they play.

I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.

I'm the sort of actor who doesn't really prep a lot - I don't do a lot of research for parts. I just go for it, and I usually pull through.

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

I'm a spontaneous actress, not a studied one.

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.

I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

'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.

Improv is a disposable art form, but it's kind of freeing in that way, too, because things can fail, and the audience is a little more forgiving.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

I've always been into improvisation.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

I kind of connected the dots, like, 'Oh, we're just saying stuff. We're just saying things that make sense, so let's just say them like you say them in real life.' It was my first and one of my only acting lessons 'cause I never really studied acting.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.