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Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

— Steve Buscemi

Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.

— Jim Rash

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

— Tatiana Maslany

There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.

— Alex Kurtzman

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

— Tina Fey

I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

— Oscar Nunez

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

— Rob Riggle

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

— Rachael Harris

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

— Wayne Brady