I was a very shy kid. In 8th grade, I had a teacher who got me into improv.

With 'The Crazy Ones,' we were really encouraged to improv and go off script.

For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.

So much of improv can be really long, and that's kind of what makes it funny.

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.'

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

A lot of times when you're trying to do improv, everybody's doing a different style.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv.

The thing I love about YouTube is it's almost like having an instant audience for improv.

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

I love and enjoy vocal performance, but I also have a huge passion for comedy and improv.

I love improv. I do it with my co-star John Michael Higgins in both 'Pitch Perfect' films.

I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

When I started doing improv in Chicago, for every five teams, one or two would have one woman.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.

I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

The thing about improv that I really love in scripted television is that it really makes a moment authentic.

I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

I always do a little bit of improv. I did some of 'The Office,' a tiny bit in 'Extras,' a bit more in 'Derek.'

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

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