Rutger Hauer on choosing a character

'Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical. -- Rutger Hauer

Impro Quote: Miles Davis #3

Impro Quote: Miles Davis #2

Impro Quote: Miles Davis #1

Impro Quote: Anything can happen within the next half hour

"Anything can happen within the next half hour!"

- words said at the start of every Stingray show.

"Can I have the suggestion of an underwater location?"

Improv Quote: Stakka Bo

"We're right here right now that's the only situation." 
- Stakka Bo, "Here We Go"

Improv Quote: "There are no mistakes, just happy accidents." - Bob Ross

Bob Ross

“There are no mistakes, just happy accidents.”

― Bob Ross, American painter and television host.

Improv Quote: "Take care of yourself, and each other."

"Take care of yourself, and each other." - Jerry Springer, politician and social commentator.

"I don't think about what I do. I do it." - Ray Bradbury

"I don't think about what I do. I do it. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

Theodore was a member of the great long-running improv troupe, The Presidents. And this quote really gets to one of the biggest lesson beginners have to learn... you don't need more stuff. Most scenes already have so much information you can use that whatever is wrong with the scene isn't a lack of emotion or that you are in the wrong place, it's usually that there isn't enough emotion or relationship.

Impro Thought of the Day: "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play"

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play." -Heraclitus, philosopher (500 BCE)


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Improv Quote: "We need body rockin' not perfection" - Beastie Boys

"We need body rockin' not perfection." - Beastie Boys (Body Movin')

Impro Thought of the Day: "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. - Epicurus, philosopher (c. 341-270 BCE)

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Impro Thought of the Day: "When it is hot, you should be hot Buddha."

"When it is hot, you should be hot Buddha. When it is cold, you should be cold Buddha." – Zen Saying

I love this saying. It encapsulates a lot of improv wisdom in a straight-forward language. It means don't try and be clever or contrary; or try to set up things that are already there, just BE what is set up. "Hot" is more than enough information to start something and see what comes organically and logically from this.

Impro Thought of the Day: "Failure presents opportunities to create subsequent victories."

"Failure presents opportunities to create subsequent victories." - Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate.

Impro Thought of the Day: "The body is always in the present..."

"The body is always in the present, whereas the mind floats around in the past and the future."

– Kirk Livingston, BATS Improv

Impro Thought of the Day: "Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful" – Brenda Ueland

"Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful."

– Brenda Ueland, If You Want To Write, 1938

"A scene is what happens while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon, Mersey Beatlesports

"A scene is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
- John Lennon, Mersey Beatlesports