We PLAY melodic MUSIC, we play songs, we play all kinds of THINGS and when you improvise you don't just SHUT out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

It SCARED me to death to think about improv, but I got HIRED for a YEAR at SECOND City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for IMPROVISATION.

My family is full of MUSICIANS, and a couple of TIMES a year we GET together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a GREAT time.

Most PEOPLE LEARN to improvise on their own, listening to records, ENDLESS HOURS of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare TIME. That's traditionally how people learn.

A good play can teach so much about CULTURE. One can ALSO improvise a lot with the MEDIUM and USE it to teach KIDS.

It was ACTUALLY quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really WELL trained dog. Very talented. I just had to follow him a LITTLE BIT, improvise a little bit. Sometimes he'd follow me. Especially because of the sausages I had in my pocket.

That always MAKES it FUN inside the RING when you know you can WORK with somebody. You can fly off the cuff while you're in there; you can improvise.

The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you ALWAYS START from an inspiration from your life, something that's HAPPENED to you or a friend. And then you PUT a comic game ONTO it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

To me, if people REALLY WANT to IMPROVISE, get into classes and learn.

I like to improvise so MUCH LIVE because I get BORED PLAYING the same thing over again. It's like the kid at school that already knows all the answers so doodles all over the paper. I do that a LOT live.

With 'The SOUP,' OBVIOUSLY it has to be totally scripted out, and then, within that, I improvise punchlines and sometimes setups if I can't read the teleprompter PROPERLY.

I'm not a classical PLAYER. I don't want to be a classical player. I LOVE to improvise, because things HAPPEN that never happen anywhere ELSE.

A good writer TAKES time to go in-depth into a subject and then comes out with a good script. Then it's the job of the actor and DIRECTOR to improvise with it and MAKE it EVEN better.

I love playing jazz because I love the FREEDOM you have to IMPROVISE. It has given me a feeling in my CLASSICAL REPERTOIRE of creating the ATMOSPHERE of the here and now.

I IMPROVISE a lot and try SOMETHING new EVERY couple of YEARS.