Improvised Quotations

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines.

On 'Sin Nombre,' Adriano Goldman and I improvised a lot of things on-site. We were working with untrained actors, and you can't really block a scene in a traditional way.

On some songs you're hearing the vocal as I improvised it (as in 'Function Of The Orgasm') so you may hear me stumble.

Lets collide and get it over with. We've had our list of streaks to break and been checking them off. This is our improvised list. Everybody knows what it takes. We're playing the team expected to win the national championship. Either you bring it or you don't.

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

I'd been collecting eccentric moves since I was a kid and didn't even know that the dance step I improvised in 'Be Back Soon' was called a 'pas de basque.'

My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.

Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade, ... The explosion set fire to the vehicle.

Over the years, consumers have demonstrated a sincere connection with the campaign by routinely sending personal priceless moments to us without solicitation in the form of improvised commercials.

I think if people never knew it was an improvised show it wouldn't matter.

It had all the components of a real improvised explosive device, minus the explosives in this particular case.

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again.

We are dealing with an improvised explosive device, what we would describe as an anti-personnel fragmentation device, a homemade bomb.

Bob and Doug were up in the hatch. That's when the vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.

As terrorists adapt to the measures we have taken, we too, are adapting, and have put increased focus on the threats posed by improvised explosive devices, a frequent weapon of choice for terrorists.

We will provide additional funding for new resources to protect our troops against roadside bombs and makeshift improvised explosive devices that have been a major source of casualties.

Both of those items together on the screen gave the appearance of an ... improvised explosive device.

After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.

Everything went haywire after the start, but Craig (Williams) improvised and that's the sign of a great jockey.

This is probably the best you've ever done. You've improvised and are a joy to watch frame after frame.

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

Shellac was asked to do a recreation of our first album, but we've always been a band that improvised our sets. That's critical to the way that we function on stage. Whatever the mood takes us on stage can vary from night to night with what you feel like playing.

This is just a chemical reaction, not an improvised explosive device.

Anything technical or scientific that the soldiers say they need, any capability gap they need filled or any tools they say they need, I provide them with, ... It turned out that the MARCBOT plays a bigger part in the improvised explosive devices fight than a lot of people had thought.

sophistication, especially in the improvised explosive devices that they are using, and we're working to learn from that and to be able to counter them.

The Guarneri is a fantastic instrument, both for playing classical music and for what I'm doing now. It's great for playing improvised music on, cause you get such great response. And for the same reason it's great for classical music too. It's a good violin.

The initial reports were that they hit an improvised explosive device and then that was followed up by small arms fire.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

It seems the explosion occurred when these people were busy making an improvised explosive device for terrorist activity,

It wasn't that we improvised it. We were going to shoot it, but I had the props in my hand, and I wanted to understand the props before we shot, so I asked Paul 'Is this the hook?' and 'Where do you put the worm?' that's when the director just said 'Shoot these guys!' I didn't even know the camera was on, but it felt good!

We improvised on the spot and I crept behind the defense, found a hole and just stopped and turned around, ... I made eye contact with Gerell, and he found me.

I can definitely see these robots having a much more instrumental role in this and the following years than they did at the beginning of the conflict, due to the fact that a lot of the improvised explosive devices are on the small secondary streets,