Category Archives: Quotes

Raving Paranoids

Nothing we say to each other is innocent of emotional manipulation. Everything that we do on stage, is to effect each other, in some way and if we notice, very carefully, how those swine we are working with are trying to get to us and get at us — Sometimes I suggest we perform on [...]

Monopoly is a Game

Found this today and have to say, It’s pretty brilliant. Sorry was not the most fun game because it relied too heavily on that big plastic half dome thing. The game itself was boring as shit.
Monopoly is a game.
We use the pattern of moving pieces around the board to play that game.
That pattern in and [...]

I do something to you which makes you do something to me

Simple, I do something to you which makes you do something to me, etc. that’s it.
Peter Gwinn on “what is the game of the scene?”

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
Del Close

Talent Cannot Be Denied

Talent cannot be denied… forever. But at the end of the day, it’s still about who you know.
Rob Riggle (during a Del Close Marathon Workshop)

This is something I’ve been focusing on for the last year. Although there is sometimes a feeling of competition in improv between groups and performers, it eventually comes down to [...]

Actors First

As improvisers, you are actors first and then improvisers.
-Dave Razowsky