Improv Comedy Quotes

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

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  Emma Stone

  Acting   Comedy   Youth  

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• Well, I came down to LA initially to join The Groundlings, which is an improv comedy group. I didn't get in, of course, becaue I'm not a part of The Groundlings. I just assumed that I could walk in and take over. So they said: "Hit the road Jack." And I ended up getting an agent instead. They sent me out on a couple of leads and I ended up on a sitcom and Van Wilder thereafter and then pantsless with Sandra Bullock.

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  Ryan Reynolds

  Couple   Groups   Agents  

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.

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  Nicholas Stoller

  Writing   College   Focus  

  Source: collider.com

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• We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.

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  Brian Henson

  Scripts   Comedy   Kind  

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm a goofball, so I think comedy is one of my stronger points, as an actor. I just never get to do it. But, I'm taking classes at Groundlings, where Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow studied, and it's all improv comedy. It feels good to be able to do that and be funny.

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  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking   Class   Feel Good  

  Source: collider.com

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• I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

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  Bruce McCulloch

  Teenager   Drinking   Evil  

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

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  T. J. Miller

  Writing   Acting   Comedy  

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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