Unscripted Quotes

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

I just do my thing onstage - it's just what happens. No one, even if they're into the band, can know it's as natural and real as anything can be. I don't think about it.

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

Some issues are just too important to be left to an unscripted Joe Biden.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

I have never planned anything. 'Kung Fu Yoga' was also never planned or anything.

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

There's no fixed pattern or formula to life.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

All my performances have been unrehearsed.

I don't like to know exactly what I'm going to do in a scene, because the most interesting moments as an audience member are moments of truthful spontaneity.

I like to work spontaneously.

Al Pacino never looks like he's being filmed.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.