Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

If you believe you're good already, you don't need to do extra stuff to impress us. Your best work comes when you're absorbed; because then your ego is away.

In life most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. Bad improvisers block action often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

I am supposed to worry about oceans rising 70 years from now, on climate models that have already proven to be utterly flawed?

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

L.A. was never really that interesting to me. I never really liked it. I like it now more than ever. It took me years to get used to it. But, it's not my kind of place.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.