Category Archives: Quotes

Actors First

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

If there is no risk

If there is no risk, why bother doing it?
-Keith Johnstone

Own The Stage

Own the fucking stage whenever you step onto it.
Mick Napier

Bring a Brick

When you start a scene, bring a brick not a cathedral.
Possibly Del Close? 
This quote has followed me around thought my improv career. I read somewhere and now can’t find the attribution to it. I always ascribe it to Del Close, but as I can’t find it’s source, I’m really not sure any more. There is [...]

Intuition is the key to everything

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business—everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. Feeling correct is a feeling I think everyone knows.
-David Lynch (AV Club)